# @swedense on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DC8sBnvu9Nk
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/30683645-swedense-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-11-29T08:17:25.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** sweden.se (@swedense) — https://gondola.cc/swedense

## Caption

This Sunday is the first of Advent – the kick-off for the Swedish Christmas season! Here’s what you need to get ready for Christmas in Sweden 🇸🇪👇
 
💛 Soft saffron buns: A must-eat during the Swedish Christmas season – sweet wheat pastries flavoured with saffron.
🍾 Unusual wine – glögg: Spiced wine, which is drunk warm and often with raisins and almonds. There are also non-alcoholic versions.
☕ Glögg cups: To avoid glugging, glögg is best drunk from customised small glass cups.
🍪 Crunchy gingerbread biscuits: Christmas staple food.
🔥 Firewood: A log fire brings extra warmth.
🌟 Star 1: A small reflector, preferably attached to your coat or jacket so that cars can see you (and people can find each other after 15:00 😄).
🌟 Star 2: A paper star with an electric light inside, used to decorate windows and boost the Christmas mood.
⛸️ Means of transport: Ice skating to work, anyone? 😉 (Admittedly not a common way to commute.)
⛄ Handy: Warm hands, warm heart! Mittens help fight off the midwinter cold.
🕯️Candles: An Advent candle is lit every Sunday from now till Christmas. Four candles mean it’s Christmas!
💡 Tangled lights: Have you also noticed that string lights often find a way to get tangled up between Christmases? 🤷
 
Happy Advent everyone! Let the countdown begin! 🎄

#Sweden #Advent #christmaspreparations #glögg #saffronbuns

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saffronbuns, sweden, glögg, christmaspreparations, advent

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