Fika-ing all over Sweden

Faithful readers will recall that my first-ever blog post was devoted to admiring the Swedish tradition of fika. Since then, J's love of words led him to discover that fika is just the syllables for ca-fé inverted. Ca-fé becomes fi-ka! (Apparently it was fashionable in the 19th century to reverse the order of syllables in to create slang words--contemporary French actually has its own version of this kind of slang, called verlan.)

We've done quite a bit of fika-ing since then, in all parts of Stockholm and even on both coasts of Sweden. If you scroll down to the right, you'll see a little link to our Flikr site--just click on the photo badge to access it--with photos of us fika-ing here, there, and everywhere. Each photo includes a caption noting the location of that particular fika along with a bit of J's pithy prose.

We'll keep updating it, so check back for photos of me, J, and a variety of tasty baked goods. If you want to have some real fun, we've also linked directly to the official H&J fika slideshow.