Northern European Passtimes ...

It's good to know that the country of Pushkin and Lermontov, Chekhov and Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chaikovsky, is still churning out individuals of truly amazing skills:. This is a video you don't want to watch if you're suffering from a hangover.

This is from a blog that I just stumbled across: Days that End in Y, which apparently provides readers with a continuous hosepipe of "Today's Reasons to Drink". An earlier post introduced me to the Danish word Olfrygt, defined as "fear arising from a lack of beer". Tells you a lot about the linguistic priorities in Scandinavia

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