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Monthly Archives: November 2020

Christmas decorations

This post contains commercial links November and December are extremely dark months in Sweden. In the northern parts the sun sets as early as 2 in the afternoon and around 4 in the rest of the country. This is one of the reasons I enjoy Advent and Lucia as much as I do. It’s aContinueContinue reading “Christmas decorations”

Posted byMissPetra2020-11-192021-05-13Posted inTradition and cultureTags:Advent, Christmas, Swedish design, Tradition and culture
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