Swedish Midsummer tradition suggests that anyone in the search of romance and true love performs a certain ritual on the Midsummer night. The ritual consists in jumping over seven fences/walls, pick seven different kinds of flowers, then put the flowers under the pillow, and then sleep on it. Do that, and you will dream about the person you will marry. The Nordic countries share a lot of culture and history, and it turns out that this tradition is also known in Iceland. Randomly meeting a group of young girls after a night out on Midsummer, me and my travel companion half-heartedly pick up on the tradition. We jump two walls, but don’t bother to pick any flowers. The next night - admittedly after a few glasses of wine - we decide that there is no reason
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