The Strangest custom I Saw in Sweden: Småstadsglädje
Monday 28 July 2025 at 13:16
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Edited by Jim McCrory, Monday 28 July 2025 at 13:20
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The Strangest Thing I Saw in Sweden
The strangest thing I saw in Sweden wasn’t the language I was having difficulty to following despite a year of learning. It wasn’t the pallets of strawberries in sleepy towns that would appear and disappear in minutes as residents purchased punnets of summertime after a long cold winter.
What made it strange, my goodness, beautifully strange, was the dance band music drifting through town squares. Couples passing by the bandstand with shopping bags in hand, would suddenly turn to each other, smile, and begin to dance. Spontaneously, just like that. A few twirls, a quiet laugh, a rhythm shared. Then they’d let go, return to their errands, and disappear into the crowd, as if nothing had happened.
The Strangest custom I Saw in Sweden: Småstadsglädje
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The Strangest Thing I Saw in Sweden
The strangest thing I saw in Sweden wasn’t the language I was having difficulty to following despite a year of learning. It wasn’t the pallets of strawberries in sleepy towns that would appear and disappear in minutes as residents purchased punnets of summertime after a long cold winter.
What made it strange, my goodness, beautifully strange, was the dance band music drifting through town squares. Couples passing by the bandstand with shopping bags in hand, would suddenly turn to each other, smile, and begin to dance. Spontaneously, just like that. A few twirls, a quiet laugh, a rhythm shared. Then they’d let go, return to their errands, and disappear into the crowd, as if nothing had happened.
But something had; Småstadsglädje.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uHw0HZkcC8
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