This Christmas I have decided to ignore customs and general expectations that you should spend the holidays with the family…even though you don’t really like them or get along with them. I’m not going to do anything I don’t feel like and instead my love and I are spending Christmas Day just the two of us, and first day of Christmas a few friends are coming over for dinner! I’m planning on cooking up a feast and inbetween the eating some serious series marathon. Currently the wire is on, but I’m thinking of picking up another few options later today! My lovely sister also sent me Solsidan for Christmas present so perhaps my sweetheart will need to sit through a few Swedish jokes without understanding a word of Swedish?! 

Yesterday I got my nails done because Julafton is actually not celebrated outside Sweden so really I just enjoyed a lovely day off before the celebrations tomorrow! I got my nails done, then down to City Street Spa for a body scrub and aromatherapy massage and then finished up the evening with drinks at Cuban and dinner at Happy Happy Joy Joy! 

   
 The local pub down the street just made one of the most epic status update on their Facebook page. Apologies it’s in Dutch but effectively it reads…if you’re tired of the family were open all Christmas and New Years, the opening times are ”tot gezellig” which is almost impossible to translate but sort of means ”until a cost time”, or rather until the last guest leaves. New Years even they’re open until at least 19.00 and then we’ll see what happens. I love a local pub that understands its customers. 

the local bar knows its clients