23 Dec 2024
Lifestyle
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Buon Natale! Italian wine and prosecco suggestions for the holiday season

In 2015 Systembolaget alone sold 193,6 million liters of wine, approximately 55 million of which came from Italy. Why, you might wonder? Because the sun hits Italy so much harder, so the grapes grow  beautifully and produce wines rich in flavour and aroma. What a contrast this makes with the 5 months of winter we have to […]

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Baby Talk: Top 10 Tips to Help You Sparkle over the Festive Season!

Top 10 tips to help you sparkle over the festive season: 1.  Smile! This season offers so many opportunities to be social and the warmth and positivity you’ll receive in return is a boost. Even with two hours sleep and a howling baby, smile!   2. Coffee – this cannot be overstated. You’ve moved on from […]

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Cookbooks For Swedish Food & Drink Aficionados

The pure joy of having the opportunity of living in Sweden for a couple of years is irrevocably tied to the world’s current fascination with Scandinavian food trends – from dishes rooted in centuries of traditions to the ever evolving new Nordic flavours and textures. There is nothing more heart warming than indulging on a […]

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Xmas Gifts For Art & Craft Lovers

It is the season of merry making and gift giving. And not just of any old present. But with spritely coloured handsome boxes liberally festooned with equally gay ribbons, promising surprises as cherished as being kissed under the mistletoe. Experience the delight of sparking that joy in friends and loved ones who relish surrounding themselves […]

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Your Living City Role Models: Kungsateljé

Kungsateljé is a tailoring service from Stockholm that is taking the concept of modifying and preparing your clothes to a new level of fashion consultancy and style solutions. Meet Said and Sam, the talent and soul of Kungsateljé, two role models who came to Sweden to mix tailoring traditions with innovation and are forging great […]

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Lifestyle Wine

Joyeux Noël! YLC’s French wine and champagne recommendations for Christmas and New Year.

We’re about to start the rollercoaster of winter celebrations, namely Christmas and New Year parties! And just like any other party, it’s nicer celebrated with a good glass of wine or champagne. So we went ahead and put together a list with some French wine and bubbly recommendations for the merriest of seasons. We divided our recommendations into Julbord wines: wines […]

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Getting our Nerd on at Comic Con

Comic Con is the place to be for all of us who like nerding over stuff like comics, superheroes, movies, TV series, gaming, fandom and cosplay. The Stockholm Comic Con was once again held at Kistamässan on the first weekend of November, and the event drew a large crowd, many of them all dressed up for […]

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Dining out Lifestyle

Stockholm: Truffle Eats To Rival Gotland’s

This year the Gotland Truffle Festival falls on 11th to 13th November, offering a Gotlandic truffle ceremony and seminars, as well as truffles for sale and served in many different dishes by various chefs at restaurants of diverse specialties. Given the festival’s previous successes, hoards of visitors from myriad regions in Sweden, Scandinavia, Europe, and beyond […]

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Día de Muertos – Day of the Dead festivities at Etnografiska

The Mexican Day of the Dead comes back to Etnografiska Museet for its annual celebration. The Mexican Society in Sweden together with Etnografiska bring us these traditions, that combine the remembrance of the departed with music, performances and colour. They have set up an altar with offerings dedicated to Juan Gabriel, one of Latin America’s biggest selling singers/composers, […]

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Cooking Lifestyle

Vegan Vikings Week & Vegovision

“Maybe we could have one day a week where we eat vegetarian together?” he said while ingesting one last slice of bacon. When my partner, the most carnivore being I know, wants to do “meat free Mondays”, you know something is underway. It is not just another trend that will come and go, it is […]

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