The summer trips abroad of young people from Stockholm seem to have become something of a tradition in a short time, says the Swedish public broadcasting company SVT.
11:54•Updated 12:22
This week, Split, one of the most popular holiday destinations in Croatia, has been filled with high school students from Stockholm, Sweden public broadcasting company SVT tells.
– At the moment you can hear Swedish on every street corner, SVT journalist who traveled to Split after the young people Karin Fallenius states.
Young people born in 2006 stand out among the Swedish tourists in Split. According to SVT, there are at least several hundred of them in the city.
The age group has just finished their second year of high school. Several of them have not yet turned 18.
– I don’t know what this is really about. This has not been advertised anywhere on Google, but all the zero tissues are in Split, representing the 06 age group from Stockholm Them says to SVT.
– It’s completely different here than in Stockholm. Here you can do whatever you want, and you don’t even have to be 18 years old, Tea Snidare, he, too, from Stockholm, born in 2006, says.
Snidare himself says that he will not turn 18 until September. According to him, Stockholmers born in 06 seem to have taken over the whole city.
– It is difficult to get into the places due to the large number of people.
This is the Stockholm week that has become a tradition in recent years, when high school students from Stockholm travel abroad for a week to celebrate.
Week 27 has been selected as the time for the trips, which in Sweden is the last week before the start of the country’s biggest summer holiday season.
According to SVT’s report, the summer trips abroad of young people from Stockholm seem to have become some form of tradition, where those who have completed their first year of high school travel to Palma in Mallorca, those who have completed their second year to Split, and those who have just finished high school to Ayia Napa in Cyprus.
The origin of the so-called Stockholm Week has so far remained shrouded in obscurity. This year, however, its popularity has risen to a whole new level.
– I already booked the trip last summer, because I knew that people born in 04 and 03 have taken similar trips in previous years. I have no idea who started this back in the day, Philip Blomberg says from the edge of the swimming pool in Split.
– I guess this is because everyone wants to do what everyone else is doing. When you hear others say “how cool it will be in Split”, others want to follow suit, says a young man from Stockholm who spoke to SVT anonymously.
See more thoughts of Swedish youth in the main video of the article.