Life is cyclical at 59 Degrees north...you have to plan ahead...

With summer vacation over, it's time to start planning for the next holiday period - Christmas. After taking a boat, this is the place where, at noon, we'll be eating "Julbord" on 10 December - that's Swedish equivalent of Christmas dinner. This place is on Sandhamn. In Sweden you are constantly planning for the next major event so reserving a table so far in advance is not an unusual thing here.

On 10 December, it will be dark by 3:30 in the afternoon. All the food offered at this Christmas smorgasbord is centered on what you can get from a sweet little pig - the starters are what you can get from the sea - and the whole thing ends with rice pudding!