Valborg - Sweden blazes into springtime

Winter’s over. Summer is just around the corner. That’s as good a cause for celebration in Sweden as any, and the revelry on Valborgsmässoafton - Walpurgis Night - on April 30th gets pretty heated.
Intensely so, actually, as massive bonfires up and down the country honour an 8th-century German abbess, St. Walpurga, or Valborg in Swedish.
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A new route of Ryanair is Vaxjo !!!

Low-cost airline Ryanair has announced that it is to launch a new route from Växjö in southern Sweden to Düsseldorf.
In a statement to the press, Ryanair said that it expects 60,000 passengers to make use of the connection during the first year.
The flights from Växjö’s SmÃ¥land Airport to Düsseldorf Weeze are scheduled to begin on [...]

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