Any1 celebrating Midsummer?

[Zafiro]

Tomorrow, Friday we celebrate Midsummer in Sweden. Which mean we are free from our jobs and eating and dancing. Having fun with friends.

Midsummer history:
Midsummer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[donau]

Good old times!! - Although Wikipedia says there's some celebrations elsewhere, I have been under the impression that it is mainly celebrated in Scandinavia (including Finland) only...At least as a huge celebration like that..

 

[LaArtist]

well im off anyways so nothing new for me..but ile be attending a little party
but no where near as serious as rizing the pole and dancing around it like frogs..like the tradition says

lol but i think even most swedes have scraped that tradition..its more about eating and having fun for sane ppl
and drinking and being stupid for INSANE ppl

 

[Mr. M]

Lucky buggers!! We don't have such a thing in Singapore, it's summer all year long.

 

[MikeJ]

I'll be off to the lake to feed the mosquitoes. Now where's my fishing rod?

 

[Choleric]

weird.

 

[Zonda]

I don't care much for midsummer but it's an excuse to be free from work, partying and having fun so it's still good. I'm not dancing around a pole though

Especially as it's raining like hell here.

 

[klier]

Hmmmmm...Swedish girls........I love them

 

[NarutoRamen]

I have no idea what midsummer is. here it's summer all the way through.

 

[Giannis]

I have no idea what midsummer is. here it's summer all the way through.

I didn't have a clue about it either. There was an article about it on today's newspaper that said that the Finn's and Swede's are celebrating the years biggest day. Years biggest day is important there because of the low average temperature. In other places like where you live NarutoRaikonen this day is no big deal.

 

[tccp]

i also read about the midsummer. seems pretty interesting.

 

[NarutoRamen]

thanks Giannis. yeah, I don't think that makes sense for me here in Sacramento. it's freakin hot as hell here. it's around 90F here. Early in the week it was 105f.

 

[MikeJ]

I didn't have a clue about it either. There was an article about it on today's newspaper that said that the Finn's and Swede's are celebrating the years biggest day. Years biggest day is important there because of the low average temperature. In other places like where you live NarutoRaikonen this day is no big deal.

Well, I'm back, and now I can tell you it has nothing to do with temperature. It's about the longest day of the year - up here where I live, the sun hardly sets this time of the year. Just a bit farther north it doesn't.

Typically the Finns celebrate it by going to their summer cabins, eating well, burning a bonfire (killing yourself in traffic or drowning in a lake optional). No dancing around poles though, or maybe some of the Swedish-speaking Finns do that.

 

[MikeJ]

A couple of my Midsummer pics:

The last one is taken around midnight.

 

[Giannis]

Well, I'm back, and now I can tell you it has nothing to do with temperature. It's about the longest day of the year - up here where I live, the sun hardly sets this time of the year. Just a bit farther north it doesn't.

Typically the Finns celebrate it by going to their summer cabins, eating well, burning a bonfire (killing yourself in traffic or drowning in a lake optional). No dancing around poles though, or maybe some of the Swedish-speaking Finns do that.

Well, i can see that the sun barely sets over there. Here it is 9pm and the sun is dead. Not to mention that today on 3.15pm the temperature was 47C at a nearby beach. I guess global warming hasn't reached Finnland yet

 

[MikeJ]

I guess global warming hasn't reached Finnland yet

This morning, before returning to the city, me and my dad went out to take a look at some of the lands we own. We decided to visit a 'nearby' lake, and after hiking there through rough terrain, I'd say the 24 degrees it was there then was more than enough.

 

[NarutoRamen]

Those are some nice pics Mike. That looks beautiful. I'd go out and take pics here but it's around 84F here with a bright ass sun and no breeze.

 

[donau]

..... No dancing around poles though, or maybe some of the Swedish-speaking Finns do that.

They do that in Ahvenanmaa (or the Aland islands for the Swedish speaking people)..maybe in the outer lying islands of Turku archipelago as well, which are as you indicated mainly Swedish speaking Finns.

 

[Anthony]

Mid summers day is not an official holiday in GB unfortunately, it does get celebrated by a number of communities, including some Pagan groups and most notably by the Morris Dancers or Morris Men. Although there are female Morris teams it is supposed that the Morris Dance is linked to male fertility were as the May Pole Dance is to celebrate spring and female fertility and should only be danced about a May Pole by virgin girls the May Pole signifies the erect Pennis
!

 

[bmer]

I guess global warming hasn't reached Finnland yet

Well, the summers are noticeably more humid than they were let's say 10 years ago. Days with 30 degrees Celsius in the summer aren't so rare anymore. Now it's back to "normal" cooler weather here but in the beginning of June we had a few days with about 30 degrees every day...