Sweden is closer than you think.

More than two million Swedish homeowners are asked to declare their property by 2 November. What the taxeringsvärde is, who really has to do something, and why the new figure often doesn't change the fee at all.

In Sweden, the state sends its mail to an account, not to an address. Without a digital mailbox you'll wait for letters that never come, and miss deadlines that run anyway.

Alla helgons dag is Sweden's autumn festival of light, and it works differently from All Saints' Day elsewhere. What happens when, which candles are allowed on graves and what's closed in Gothenburg that Saturday.