No panto here in Sweden either. We have them, but it´s not a Christmas tradition.
We celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve in Sweden. At three o´clock in the afternoon there´s a tradition to watch Christmas cartoons on TV. Year after year they show the
exact same thing - it´s a mix of different Disney cartoons such as Cinderella, Donald Duck, Lady and the Tramp and Ferdinand the Bull.
Then we (or the ones of willing to go outside) go for a walk to the cemetery where we light a candle on my grandparents graves.
After that we walk back home and eat. A lot. Ham, meatballs, herring, baltic herring, potatoe, Janson´s temtation (a traditional Swedish casserole made of potatoe, onion, pickled spats and cream) and then we have this thing were we soak bread in a sort of gravy.
Some years (when someone is willing to) one of us dress up as Santa Claus, walks outside and sprinkles himself in snow, comes back and does a little "show".
After we´ve eaten it´s time to open our presents under the tree. That usually takes a pretty long time during which we eat a lot of sweets and drink soda or vine.
Afterwards we collect all the wrap paper and then stumble into bed.
Our celebration lacks religious meaning and for us is all about family and getting together to have fun.
Janson´s temtation
typical Swedish Christmas smorgosboard