#Fika

[slowlivingsisterhood]

source// Pinterest

[lynxvalkyria]

I'm having a seriously bad day and is seriously considering eating this whole thing as a burrito. Thanks for the idea @svenskjavel

[cozywithanna]

✺ ✾ moodboard ✾ ✺

cold air, warm lights, and the quiet magic of cities built for long walks and slow mornings

source: pinterest

[pernillemagda]

[vintage-sweden]

Coffee break, 1923, Sweden.

[mereljournals]

Stockholm, August 2023 (made by Merel Djamila)

[jeeklaart]

a breakfast spread 🥐

( find me here )

[sonandheirofnothinginparticular]

[eillanu]

My Little pony and My Little pony equestria girls cast meme

Power rangers ninja storm

Shane/Twilight Sparkle

Tori/Fluttershy

Dustin/Pinkie Pie

Hunter/Applejack

Blake/Rainbow Dash

Cam/Rarity

Fpe

Oliver

Fika

Alphabet lore oc!

Anti good

[klucksize]

Sajnos ezt nem lehet megszokni, mindig ugyanúgy nevetek rajt

[anittapazzz]

i ❤️ ROMA

[onlyhereforghost]

Any Stockholm based Ghesties here?

I’ll be in Stockholm for 2 weeks in April and really want to check out some Ghost locations! Year Zero church, Spillways video set etc.

Also, anyone want to join me for Fika?

[yes-itisautumn]

[ghainwah]

[isaarne]

Another tea party Links

[best-non-english-word-torunament]

Round one: Haikea vs Fika

(poll at the end)

Haikea (Finnish)

[ˈhɑi̯keɑ]

Translation: A feeling of quiet, melancholic, sometimes even mournful longing. "Wistful" comes fairly close as a translation, though it's not exactly the same.

Finnish is an Uralic language belonging to the Finnic branch spoken by 5 300 000 people in Finland, where it is one of two national languages (the other is Swedish though it is less used, Finnish is the main language).

Motivation: It's one of the most beautiful words to say in Finnish, IMO; it has a beautiful flow to the vowels, and it almost sounds like a sigh. It's also an emotion often associated with a lot of Finnish art, literature, music and culture in general, and thus it's a strong part of Finnish identity.

Fika (Swedish)

[fi:ka]

Translation: A light meal in between real meals, usually in the afternoon (before lunch it’s förmiddagsfika (late morning fika) and after dinner it’s kvällsfika (evening fika), you can say eftermiddagsfika (afternoon fika) but it’s implied without specification), usually consisting of something to drink and a baked sweet (cinnamon bun is the classic idea of fika). A prototypical fika is a social occasion and/or a break, some translate it as coffee break but that’s not it. Coffee is not needed. It doesn’t even have to be hot like tea, you can drink syrup or water! Anyway, it’s common to eat some kind of baked sweet for the more social occasions, but for the everyday fika (as in, it’s afternoon and you’re hungry) you can eat a fruit or sandwich alone and call it fika (or mellanmål). You don’t have to eat either, as long as you drink something with others. Taking a fika in a café is a common way to socialize.

Swedish is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic/Scandinavian branch. It’s the national language of Sweden and spoken by 9,4 million people there, but 13 million people in total, many of them in Finland. Since Finland was part of Sweden for a long time, there is a big community of Swedish-speaking Finns, making it an official language taught in Finnish schools.

Motivation: I just think it sounds nice and is a nice concept

Note: The translation is entirely mine, as I am Swedish and the submitter is not (it was explicitly written in the submission)