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14th December 2021

The UK has once again gon Scandi-mad, with loads of articles about how to have a hygge Christmas. One tradition we love is the feast of Lucia (last featured in 2017) with candles and processions and Italian songs.

Our friends at LondonSwedes had organised several Lucia services/concerts across the UK and all of them were sold out. This is from the London one:


As you can see they have got the whole candle-headdress-fire-risk thing going on.

Here's a hamster dressed up for Lucia:


And finally here's friend of the Advent Calendar, Sweden's Princess Estelle and her brother Prince Oscar, with their official Christmas photo, alongside a similar photo of her mother and uncle, released yesterday on Lucia:



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