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Melodifestivalen is the competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Swedish House Family from Mleodifestivalen

Melodifestivalen 2013 #2

The songs in the second heat of Melodifestivalen 2013, the competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, were considerably better than those which featured in the … Read the rest “Melodifestivalen 2013 #2”

Melodifestivalen 2013 #1

“There’s certainly no Loreen in that lot”, I thought to myself as I watched Melodifestivalen #1 this morning. Melodifestivalen is the multi-heat competition which chooses the Swedish entry for the … Read the rest “Melodifestivalen 2013 #1”

Petra Mede to host Eurovision 2013

Äntligen! Äntligen!

Gosh, I love the internet. You can lie on your couch in Sydney (as the rain intensifies) and via your television set, be transported across the other side of the … Read the rest “Äntligen! Äntligen!”

Child behind thinking hurry up fat bald man, I want a photograph with Nanne also.

Melodifestivalen 2013

I really, really love this photograph taken almost three years ago at a shopping centre in Stockholm with Swedish pop singer (and daughter in law of ABBA-Benny), Nanne Grönvall. In … Read the rest “Melodifestivalen 2013”

Systembolaget Södermalm

Systembolaget Surry Hills

“What a beautiful t-shirt you have”, said the woman behind the bottle-shop counter. I reminded her we’d met once before in similar circumstances, and she’d said something similar. Four years … Read the rest “Systembolaget Surry Hills”

Loreen

Eurovision 2012

A few weeks ago, when it was first suggested Sweden was favourite to win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest I wrote my boss an email saying, “If Sweden wins I’ll … Read the rest “Eurovision 2012”