{"id":5145,"date":"2016-07-23T15:37:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T13:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/en\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2020-06-03T14:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T13:34:08","slug":"travel-like-a-swede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/en\/travel-like-a-swede\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Travel Culture &#8211; Swedes on a Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Travel-like-a-Swede-How-to-be-Swedish-s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5170\" src=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Travel-like-a-Swede-How-to-be-Swedish-s-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"Travel like a Swede - How to be Swedish\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Travel-like-a-Swede-How-to-be-Swedish-s-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Travel-like-a-Swede-How-to-be-Swedish-s-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Travel-like-a-Swede-How-to-be-Swedish-s-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Travel-like-a-Swede-How-to-be-Swedish-s.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swedes love their country. But,\u00a0once in a while, they also love to leave it.<\/p>\n<p>Since Swedes are fed up with winter-darkness\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/en\/be-obsessed-with-summer-and-sunshine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as you can read here<\/a>) they long for warm sunny days. The rarity of those days\u00a0in Sweden forces\u00a0Swedes to temporarily escape from their cold country, in\u00a0search for a warm\u00a0place with beaches and sun-shine-guarantee.<\/p>\n<h2>The most popular destinations for Swedes<\/h2>\n<p>To become more Swedish means that you have to travel to places\u00a0with either lots of sunlight or English as the national language.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magaluf (party place on Mallorca, Spain), if\u00a0you just graduated from school<\/li>\n<li>Australia, USA, South America or, well, London, if you have no kids, yet<\/li>\n<li>Thailand, if you work in an office, or, if you&#8217;re an aged newly-divorced\u00a0man<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Before booking a trip<\/h3>\n<p>Before you book a trip, you chat with your colleagues and friends about their experiences in Khao Lak, \u00a0Soho or Machu Picchu.<\/p><div id=\"hejsw-3509759858\" class=\"hejsw-content-sfa-desktop-and-tablet-1 hejsw-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3eu3RS1\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Book about Sweden - How to be Swedish\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1.png\" alt=\"Book about Sweden - How to be Swedish\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1.png 900w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1-800x600.png 800w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/hejsweden.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/HtbS-ad-main-220420-1-1-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Then, once you follow their recommendations, you pick a nice accommodation on one of Sweden&#8217;s most popular travel agency sites (see below). Finally,\u00a0you fly to your target place, walk around, and\u00a0complain that there are too many Swedes present.<\/p>\n<h3>Swedes\u00a0on a plane<\/h3>\n<p>Real Swedes are easy to recognize on a plane. The otherwise so alcohol-abstinent folks are &#8211; once being liberated from <em>home-pressure<\/em>\u00a0and <em>jante-mania<\/em> (more about that in a later post) &#8211; among the first to order a little bottle of wine. Justifying their choice with the words &#8216;<em>det \u00e4r ju semester<\/em>&#8216;, <em>it&#8217;s vacation after all<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Popular Swedish traveling sites specialized in Swedish travel-needs<\/h3>\n<p>Those sites are trusted according to some of my Swedish friends. The links are pointing to the sites&#8217; Swedish page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.expedia.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Expedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apollo.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apollo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booking.com\/index.sv.html?aid=346866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Booking.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Swedish travel culture<\/h2>\n<p>There&#8217;s something strange going on with the Swedes. They\u00a0can&#8217;t spend a year at home without getting nervous. It is as if they\u00a0feel a high subconscious pressure to go abroad, even if it&#8217;s just for a weekend.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Traveling&#8217;, for Swedes, is synonymous with &#8216;sun, alcohol and sex&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This trait must be inherited from their Viking ancestors, who made a living from traveling around, settling at beaches for a while and later &#8211; having explored and exploited\u00a0enough &#8211;\u00a0to finally come home with their luggage\u00a0stuffed with cheap\u00a0souvenirs. A bit like the life of modern day Instagrammers then\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Travel documentation<\/h3>\n<p>To become a real Swede, one of your previous Facebook profile picture has to show you with one\u00a0of the following backgrounds&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Thailand beach<\/li>\n<li>Skyline of New York<\/li>\n<li>Machu Picchu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Travel\u00a0advice<\/h3>\n<p>So, dear new-Swede, talk to Ann-Brit or \u00c5ke in your office, or Linn\u00e9a or Johan in your class, they can certainly recommend you great hotels and cocktail bars for your trip to\u00a0a typically Swedish travel destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedes love their country. But,\u00a0once in a while, they also love to leave it. Since Swedes are fed up with winter-darkness\u00a0(as you can read here) they long for warm sunny days. 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