Midsummer Eve is celebrated all over Sweden, with dancing and singing around the maypole. People begin the day by picking flowers and making wreaths to place on the maypole and the young Swedish girls even wear flower wreaths in the hair.
Ones the “may pole” is raised the dancing around it starts and the fiddlers are playing and everybody sing and laugh while they are dancing.
One of the most popular places for Midsummer celebration is Skansen open-air museum in Stockholm, but every town, city and province make its own Midsummer Celebration – the longest day of the year.
Midsummer is also a day of eating a typical summer Smörgåsbord, with various herring dishes, fresh boiled potatoes with dill , salmon and of course the famous Swedish meat balls. In addition, crisp bread with Vasterbotten cheese and together with all this you drink Swedish beer and schnapps. For dessert whipped cream and fresh strawberries – it can’t be more Swedish than that.
GLAD MIDSOMMAR och SKÅL (Happy Midsummer and cheers).