Filing this under “Best Airport Amenity of the Week:”
Stockholm Arlanda Airport is celebrating Swedish Midsummer this week by inviting travelers to dance around a maypole and sample Swedish foods.
At a long table set up in Terminal 5, passengers will be able to sample herring, salmon, fish roe, Västerbotten cheese and elderflower juice.
A variety of Swedish products, including a book of Swedish drinking songs, will be for sale and there will be Swedish music.
Billed as a “crash course in Swedish Midsummer Traditions, the five “subjects” will be:
Dancing around the maypole – which is likely fun, but also insures good luck in marriage and childbirth;
Wearing a Midsummer wreath with flowers on one’s head;
Singing Swedish drinking songs;
Dreaming: Seven kinds of flowers placed under one’s pillow insure a dream of one’s true love;
and Eating – that’s where the herring, new potatoes, salmon, Västerbotten cheese and strawberries and cream come in.