{"id":2837,"date":"2012-03-22T15:36:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2018-07-04T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:59:15","slug":"top-10-things-i-miss-about-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/2012\/top-10-things-i-miss-about-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Things I Miss About Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"

It will be almost 2 months since I last was on Swedish soil. And I miss Sweden! What do I miss about it? Here is my top 10 list.<\/p>\n

10. Swedish Coffee<\/h3>\n

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Coffee here in the States tastes like… swamp water. Just not as strong and yummy as real Swedish coffee! And the cups are huge here in the States. I like my small cup of coffee, hold the cream, chocolate, sugar, caramel and whatever other flavoring you need to add to make your swamp water good! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

9. Its fika time!<\/h3>\n

What? I only eat 3 times a day here in the States. There is no time for fika <\/a>time, and that is just plain sad.<\/p>\n

8. Cheese<\/h3>\n

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There is something about Vasterbotten ost that you just can’t find anywhere else.<\/p>\n

7. Hockey<\/h3>\n

Sure, I can pay 500kr a month just to watch Swedish hockey. I’m not that desperate, and it is not that fun without a bunch of Swedes around you. And here in Bozeman, Montana<\/a>, there is no hockey team! So everyone follows some other random team far away. I was recommended to cheer for the Denver team or the Canadian team. Or perhaps I should cheer for the California team in San Jose. I miss SAIK! And I didn’t even go to a hockey game in Sweden, doh!<\/p>\n

6. The post office at the store<\/h3>\n

Do you realize how freakin convenient it is to have the post office in the supermarket? Now I have to drive to another building to send my mail!<\/p>\n

5. Moose meat<\/h3>\n

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Yes, we hunt here. Elk is the big game, whitetail is the more common game. Game meat is available, but geez, I was living off that moose meat<\/a>! And while you can hunt moose, it is less common here. Doh!<\/p>\n

4. Godis<\/a>!<\/h3>\n

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Ahhh, I love the fact that in Sweden I can eat candy like a 10-year-old… and even though I’m almost 30, it is completely acceptable! Here not so much \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

3. Swedish Cider<\/h3>\n

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Swedish cider is so so so yummy and there is just nothing else like it!<\/p>\n

2. Att Prata Svenska<\/h3>\n

Det finns n\u00e5gon h\u00e4r i Montana som s\u00e4ger till mig “Hej” och “Tack”, men inte s\u00e5 mycket… och, bara en kompis, och han heter Pete Sveen! \ud83d\ude09 Jag \u00e4r s\u00e5 glad f\u00f6r Facebook och Skype, jag kan prata svenska en lite gran, men det \u00e4r inte samma att bor i Sverige. Och jag kan h\u00f6ra hur min svenska \u00e4r v\u00e4rst!<\/p>\n

All I can say is thank goodness for those free resources that are available for learning Swedish online<\/a>!<\/p>\n

1. Swedes!<\/h3>\n

Oh, my sweet Swedish friends and strangers, who aren’t super excited about every little thing like us Americans. Who don’t say excuse me and just lightly bump you out of the way. Who doesn’t drink at all during the week but gets completely wasted on the weekends? Who has amazing taste in art and design<\/a>? I miss you all the most!<\/p>\n

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Jag saknar dig Sverige!!<\/h4>\n

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It will be almost 2 months since I last was on Swedish soil. And I miss Sweden! What do I miss about it? Here is my top 10 list. 10. Swedish Coffee Coffee here in the States tastes like… swamp water. Just not as strong and yummy as real Swedish coffee! And the cups are … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":5500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[395,131,204],"yst_prominent_words":[595,1657,1318,1656,1312,1655,1321,639,691,830,827,1653,1319,1320,1658,1317,603,1093,1316,1654],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32852,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2837\/revisions\/32852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2837"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}