@atom: once I saw a TV-reportage about the "sur strömming". After a while the team let the "Swedish natives" in the house and continued filming from the outside, through the windows.

Do you know, that the Japanese are the one and only other people in the world, who love "sur strömming", too? It was said in this reportage. I've asked a Japanese friend, and he confirmed, that it's known overe there.


Scandinavia is known for extremely expensive alcohol. So everyone in other countries expect, that Scandinavian citizens are always drunk, when they have left their home-countries (often it's the truth indeed).

I should digitalize a photo of my Swedish friends, how they are crawling under their VW Vento (Jetta III in the USA) to measure the space betweend chassis and ground - it was 4 cm.
They've bought some car-parts here, alloy-wheels and so, but also lot of beer and wine. Finally there was no space for the beercan-boxes, so we've thrown the single cans from the driver's seat in the back, have pushed them under the seats and so on.
The guys had to take the two bridges, because the Vento was too loaded to get in the the ferry-boat.