By car to Sweden – overland travel

🏥 Women wait longer in Swedish emergency rooms than men. At every age, in every region, and nobody is officially sure why.

That`s the takeaway from Socialstyrelsen`s latest report, Sweden`s National Board of Health and Welfare. Average ER stay in 2025: 4 hours and 16 minutes. Up from the year before.

The regional gap is wide. Region Skån: almost 5 hours. Region Jönköping: just over 3. Where you live really matters.

But the gender pattern is the part that won`t go away. It shows up year after year, and the agency`s own medical expert admits openly that they don`t know the cause and that it needs to be researched.

Sweden is great at measuring its problems. The harder part comes after 🇸🇪

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🇸🇪 Posting in Swedish again… thank you for the amazing response to my first Swedish video ❤️

I was honestly a little nervous about posting it, but your comments were so kind and encouraging that I couldn’t wait to record another one.
So yes… there will definitely be more Swedish videos coming 😅

This time I made pressgurka – one of those simple Swedish side dishes that somehow ends up next to everything 🥒

The recipe comes from my Midsommar: The Swedish Way e-book, where I’ve collected some of my favourite Swedish recipes, traditions and Midsommar classics 🇸🇪🍓

If you’d like this recipe written out step by step (plus 2 more recipes from the book), just comment:
📖 EBOK
and I’ll send them straight to you in a DM ✨

Inside the full e-book you’ll find:
🍽️ 31 Swedish recipes
🎉 Midsommar traditions explained
🎶 snaps songs with English translations
📖 147 pages of Swedish summer inspiration
💡 ingredient swaps, serving tips and practical advice

And now I need to know…

👇 What’s your favourite thing to eat with pressgurka?

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🏡 A town in Sweden is giving away apartments for FREE. Purchase price: 0 kronor.

Hällefors, a small town in the forests about an hour from Örebro, has a shrinking population, and a local housing cooperative can’t sell its empty apartments. So five of them are now being given away.

The logic is very Swedish: in a housing cooperative, empty apartments mean higher monthly fees for everyone else. A new neighbour who pays their share is worth more than an empty flat.

The catch? You still pay the monthly fee, plus a small transfer cost. But ownership itself is free.

A few years ago these apartments were in demand. Now they can’t be given away fast enough. That’s rural Sweden’s population shift in one story. 📉

Would you move? 👀

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🇸🇪 Posting this before I change my mind 😅

This is only the second video I’ve ever recorded entirely in Swedish.

I’ve been learning Swedish for years, yet every time I speak it on camera, my brain somehow forgets that making mistakes is part of the process 😂

This video was a double challenge: not only was I speaking Swedish, but I was also filming in public, which still makes me surprisingly nervous.

While editing, I spotted several mistakes. One of them I fixed because… let’s be honest, I accidentally swallowed an entire syllable and changed the word completely 🤣
And at some point I had to stop rewatching the video because every time I did, I found something new to cringe at. So instead of overthinking it, I’m pressing publish.

The funny thing is that I use Swedish almost every day. But mostly for work, client meetings, branding projects, websites, marketing, emails, and everyday errands.

Conversations about everything and nothing? Those are much rarer (@dzhana__beauty made me realise that 😆)

And that’s exactly why I need more practice.

So if you spot mistakes, feel free to correct me 🇸🇪 For these Swedish videos, I’ll be replying to Swedish comments in Swedish too.

Let’s see how this goes 😅

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😱 Someone in Sweden just sold a box of Pokémon cards for 649,687 kronor.

Not a rare single card though. A sealed, unopened booster box from 2005: the EX Unseen Forces series, one of the most hunted sets in the world.

It sold on Tradera, Sweden`s biggest auction site, to a Danish collector who said he`d been searching for one for years. It`s the most expensive Pokémon item ever sold on the platfor, beating the previous record by almost 200,000 kronor.

And the Pokémon market in Sweden is genuinely exploding: over 540,000 cards sold on Tradera last year, up 276% from the year before. 📈

Twenty years ago, kids ripped these boxes open in seconds. The ones who didn`t… are rich now.

Go check your attic 👀
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