You know that feeling when you’re curled up on a window seat with a cup of tea? Or wrapped in a soft blanket in front of a crackling fire when it’s raining outside? Or sharing comfort food and easy conversation with friends at a candlelit table?

There’s a word for this feeling of cosy contentment in Danish: hygge (pronounced hoo-gah). It roughly translates to ‘cosiness’ but it is so much more than that.  Please continue reading