Caroline Thingvall, Finance Officer, Department of Computer and Systems Sciences:
“With my partner, our daughter and the cat on our holiday house in Hälsingland. We are usually many families celebrating together, but this year it will be just us and my partner's sister's family, who are the same age as us. Grandparents will not join this year due to the pandemic.”
Lan Wang Erlandsson, Postdoc, Stockholm Resilience Centre:
“This year will be a bit special, we usually celebrate with relatives. Now it will be the closest family and outdoors. We will look for a place, probably somewhere close to the university. We hope that not everyone else has the same idea. Grandparents will be there, perhaps also aunt Malin, but it is difficult to keep distance to her for our daughter who is very fond of her. We have a plan for the Christmas gift distribution, we put them on a table and whoever gets the gift pick it up from there.”
Alasdair Skelton, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences:
“Well, in 2020 I have learned to stay at home. I will celebrate Christmas at home in Stockholm with my wife and my daughters. This is how we usually celebrate so no change for us. However, we normally visit my mother in Scotland for New Year, but not this year. Since I prefer not to fly, it would mean trains through five countries and with all the restrictions it will probably not work. I will also spend a part of the Christmas holidays working as a volunteer, livestreaming Mass for the Church of Sweden. During Mass, only a few of us are in the Church itself - myself, a priest, a couple of musicians, and a janitor.”
Marianne Dehasque, doctoral student, Department of Zoology:
“I will be travelling back home to Belgium. Unfortunately, the corona restrictions are very strict there. I will stay at my parents’ home and celebrate Christmas, and I will have to be in quarantine for ten days. After the holidays, I will probably go for hikes with family and friends, in small groups of maximum four people, and we have to wear face masks.”