Monday, 15 August 2011

Midsummer in Sweden

Matt and I headed in separate directions from Bergamo with Ryanair: he was bound for his cousin's birthday-slash-farewell in London and I was dropping into Stockholm for my beautiful friend Emma's surprise hen party.

A midsummer wreath for the bride-to-be

Em's mum takes pole to the streets of Stockholm

The party had a midsummer theme, complete with a brunch of lovely Swedish food (oh how I love skagen - prawns and dill in mayo on toast), pole-dancing lessons and a party at a lakehouse where we gorged on seafood, drank schnapps, sang drinking songs, ate cheese, played midsummer games and capped off the evening with a sauna. Very civilised indeed. I was feeling slightly off-key all day so laid off the booze and took it pretty easy.

Schnapps o'clock

No lake house would be complete without a...

All set up for the wine and cheese tasting

Malin talks us through fermented grapes and milk

It was a wonderful celebration with so much thought and love in the planning and spirit of the day. The next day I flew to Mallorca via Barcelona to meet Matt for five days of detox before a hitting Ibiza for some debauchery with Sunny, Alex, Azom and Number1.

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