Holidays

We recently had a weekend Swedish friends at their summer house in Ostergotland. Glorious weather, nature, warm lakes to swim in and simple good food was the order for the few days. Lasse, my pal of 35 years, and his family had just completed the first week of their 7/8 weeks stay at the summer house and were starting to look relaxed (and tanned). We belted back to a cool and fog bound Edinburgh on the Monday. Does Swedish society have something to tell us about the need to take holidays seriously. I need to plan my extended break now!