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“Now you are Swedish,” she said, toasting us with glogg.

Ashore, we met Linda Wahlström, and she invited us to the hilltop B&B she runs to warm up with a glass of glogg, the Swedish mulled wine, and some grilled Stockholmer sausages.

Glogg, a mulled wine into which you can dip cookies, is a popular drink of choice across Scandinavia at Christmastime.

For me, that was — and still is — all the family, a crackling fire, and a hot cup of glogg: red wine infused with star anise, cloves, cinnamon and orange peel.

In that spirit, we will have glogg and gingersnaps on the winter menu — so that we can welcome people in from the cold to create memories of their own.