We see quite a few famous people in and around our area, but we're never quite been as excited as when Morten Harkett stopped by. The A-ha boys even signed a Norwegian flag for us, posed here by our Louise (who is back for the summer, by the way).
A lovely girl called Emilie runs a wonderful online store called Greta Nord, which stocks and sells lots of hand crafted Swedish fashion accessories. Try them for the wonderful clogs, funky hats and really nice jewellery.
You can find out more stuff by clicking here http://www.gretanord.com
This time around two years ago we knew a lot less about herring than we do now. We had also never encountered the Seb/Henrik double act, nor had we realised just how many people love open sandwiches in the UK.
It's been a real blast so far and we love getting up every morning to come to the Scandinavian Kitchen, whether its to make the Monmouth coffee we serve or if it's to help people get introduced to the wonders of Kalles Kaviar from Sweden.
Tomorrow, Tuesday 7th July, we'll be dishing out the cake and maybe wearing silly party hats too. We'll certainly be feeling happy and cheerful and ready for a lot of birthday hugs.
We'd love to see you, so pop by and have a chit chat, a little piece of cake and maybe a hug or two.
Thanks for making Scandi Kitchen happen every day - we would not be here without you guys.
Lots of love
The Birthday Crowd
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Woo hoo - we can't wait. Thsi is SUCH a good festival. This year, the End of the Road festival is on in Dorset from 11th, 12th and 13th September. There's a fantastic line up and magically, still a few tickets available - so don't delay in getting yours.
Scandi Kitchen was there last year, serving up the hot dogs and the meatballs and we'll be there again this year as well.
You can read more here about this wonderful event: http://www.endoftheroadfestival.com/
Okkervil-River - of the many great bands that will be playing the festival this year
Back in the days of double cassette players, most of us (or at least the ones of us who were born then) made mix-tapes. Some for our own pleasure and some for the people we fancied. What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon and what a shame we don't do that anymore.
Well, sort of. Henrik and Jonas are making mix tapes at the moment. Well, mix CDs, really. They compiling a list of our best Scandinavian classics and they need your help. Did you put ABBA's "The Winner Takes it All" on your mix tape to Freddie from Farnborough when he dumped you for Suzie with the big boobies? Or did you listen to Whigfield and dance your little bottom off on holidays in Spain? We want to know about it.
Okay, share and share alike, here are some of ours:
Bronte was into a band called Dodo and The Dodos and played their songs endlessly during one particularly heartbreaking summer (1988). She is not sure she ever made a mix tape for the boy in question, though.
Henrik made mix tapes for a girl called Carolin and Jonas for all the girls in his class that were called Maria (most of them). Both included the song by Europe called "Carrie".
Over to you - we want to know your fave cheesy Scandi tunes and ideally, why. It's for our own special mix tape.
Thanks - and here's Dodo and the Dodos. Powerful stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VkQTvbMvOc
Fancy getting away from it all: Try these little hiding places in Scandinavia.
Our Louise loves the idea fo this hotel near Stockholm - it is in the middle of a lake and you have to sail to get there. It's called Utter Inn.
Jonas likes the idea of getting away from it all in this beautiful Lighthouse hotel in Norway - and Henrik would love to stay in theis fancy pancy igloo in Finland.
Denmark didn't have any unusual hotels, so Bronte got in a bit of a huff, but she did say that if you ever get stuck about 7 KM south-west outside Slagelse on Zealand in Denmark, you can waste the time waiting for the next bus by visiting Trelleborg, the site of an old Viking fortress. There's not much there now, except some sheep and a few huts (not the real ones, dummy). Potential hotel?
We love Sebastian, that is no secret. Ever since he walked into our lives over two years ago, he's been part of the family. Lately, his hair has grown quite a bit, so for his birthday today we bought him an assortment of pretty hair clips. We also gave him a voucher for a haircut.
Should Sebastian cut his hair? Or keep it long and put it in a pony tail a la bon jovi? Get a perm? Are you popping by to wish him Happy Birthday and give him a hug? So many questions, so little time. But feel free to send your greetings to him via the blog. He'll love it.
with hair and with not much hair
Our friends at SAS are giving away those fancy 5 day island hopper cards with tickets sold to Stockholm for August and September this summer - more details http://www.flysas.com/en/uk/Promotions-and-prices/Island-Hopper-Card/?WT.ac=here
We sometimes get accused of featuring little businesses that are all about clothes and fancy stuff. Well, not today: our friend Chris and his Swedish wife Rebecca run a little business taking care of people's knives. Yes, really - companies like these do exist and this one in particular is a really wonderful and friendly service.
We've been using them at SK for years now - but a while ago they launched their domestic service too - and can pick up from any London address and return to you in a few days.
So, if you need your Globals sharpened before you carve that Gravad lax, try them out - they are worth it (although, mind your fingers afterwards, Chirs and Rebecca do a terribly good job).
http://knifesharpeningcompany.com
We had fun in Hyde Park on Saturday for the Swedish/Finnish Midsummer celebrations - and judging by the turn out, about 992 of you guys seemed to as well - wowsa, there was a lot of people.
One thing, though - the pole was a bit small this year, let's all remember next year that we need to bring a bigger pole along.
all photos taken by our Sara
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