MATTHIAS

It started when I had a boy called Jack. I didn’t feel very grown up. My father has a tash, so I decided to grow a more fatherly look. I spent a couple of months with a teenager’s tash and my girlfriend didn’t like it, but now she wouldn’t let me shave it.

PEKKA

My moustache is an attitude to me. I’ve had it 22 years. It’s my life and my everything.

ERIK

I grew it. My girlfriend didn’t like it. I dumped her.

ELIAS

A girlfriend broke up with me about 4 years ago… I guess growing it was kind of  revenge against her. Plus, whenever I shave it away I look like Homer Simpson.

JIM

Why did you have to stop me today? I just trimmed it and it was even longer. This is seven years in the making.

JOHAN & BRUNO

I grew it because of my bald head. It’s compensation, pure and simple.

PER

I blame it all on John Lennon.

When crossing a border in this car it’s best to have a native with you. Enter Andreas Pettersson (far right), who joined us in Berlin for the 1,000km road trip north for Midsummers & Moustaches. The Pettersson farm is famous throughout the Swedish countryside for it’s midsummers 24-hour party on a day that the sun never sets. Well it might have set for an hour, but it never did quite get dark enough to disguise any inappropriate behaviour. But before there was midsummers or moustaches there was a drive and a sailing involving a whole new form of table tennis.

Before there’s talk of the Swedish Moustaches there must be at least one awkward photograph from Midsummers.

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Meet Dan Sederowsky

President of the Swedish Handlebar Club.

In order to be a member of a handlebar club you must first have a considerable solitary growth above the lip and second prove yourself as a gentleman. Dan Sederowsky can boast of both. After a weekend of partying, he took us into his home and sobered us up with coffee, biscuits and tips for a good tash.

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Swedish Moustache Paraphernalia:

The Moustache Mug – Enjoy coffee with a dry Mo.

For the left handed tashed coffee drinker.

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