Christmas traditions vary around the world. For example, in Sweden the whole country basically shuts down to watch a 1958 Donald Duck holiday special? Would you like to know more about Swedish ...

They’re watching "Donald Duck". Perhaps the most loved and sacred Swedish Christmas tradition, Donald Duck, or "Kalle Anka" as the Swedes call him, is the name given to a 1950s Disney special ...

Sweden has some charming Christmas traditions. For example, it’s customary to serve a Christmas Eve buffet of traditional foods including risgrynsgröt, a rice pudding flavoured with cinnamon.

Sweden has one of the highest numbers of official holidays in Europe. Today there are 13 official public holidays in Sweden, and despite being a largely secular country, nine have their history in ...

When I told people I was traveling to Sweden, one of the first things they invariably mentioned was fika. This refers to the tradition to having coffee and a pastry. The difference between fika ...

In Sweden, children will leave out coffee for ... Japanese Christmas food traditions Christmas isn't a public holiday in Japan and as such isn't a particularly big celebration.

making it Sweden's most-viewed TV show in modern history. Glass pickle German Christmas traditions are popular in the United States. One of them is supposedly hanging a "Christmas pickle made in ...

Christmas is here and the Nordic traditions have begun. The primary denomination of the Nordic countries has been Lutheran, so the church traditions are very much a part of the season’s ...

At the Swedish Christmas dinner of the Thule Lodge, Susan Sipos, lodge chairwoman, set a display of a Swedish table with Swedish items. FALCONER – Members of the Thule Lodge recently held their ...