The empty city and the Christmas day.
It is unbelievable, everything is closed ! Transportation is stopped, the shops are closed, the pubs and restaurants are closed. You wouldn’t believe it but the Casino which is near my house is also closed !
Another strange fact to me is that Santa is coming on the Christmas day. Probably the Russian version of him, the “Ded Moroz” comes on the New Year evening …
But lets start from the beginning. Here, the Christmas day is celebrated for the two days. The first day is called a Christmas day while the second one is the Boxing day. The first time any reminder of the Christmas celebrations is dated by the 336AD in Rome. By tradition, the Christmas day starts from the evening before by the family dinner. Following the traditions, although we are not Christians, we have decided to take the offer for the dinner. It wasn’t religious family, just our friends so all the celebrations were about having a nice meal with couple of bottles of Cognac and a lot of fun.
I am used to know, from my childhood, that Santa Clouse coming with his presents on the New Year evening. Apparently, he comes on the Christmas day. The name Santa Clouse (from internet sources) comes originally from St. Nicholas and with the years through the Dutch and English language was converted to Sint Nikolaas then to Sinterklaas and finally to the to Santa Claus. By the way, the tradition for the Christmas tree was started originally from Germany. They made the tree decorations and it become very popular. It was prince Albert who brought the first Christmas tree to the royalty at 1836.
On the Christmas day, the city is empty. No people on the streets, the transportation is not working and nothing is open. We decided to visit the BBC building, so we walked around the city for many hours. Checking the map later, we have covered something like 18 kilometres by foot.
During the evening, we have made a walk trying to find anyplace to dink a beer, but nothing come out. We have finished the evening with private dinner which included mesh potatoes, chicken and Jack Daniels.
The origin of the following day (from internet sources), the Boxing day, has come from the many charity boxes which were putted inside the churches for money collecting for the poor people. This day is almost like weekend, most of the people are having a day off with most of the shops closed.
Another strange fact to me is that Santa is coming on the Christmas day. Probably the Russian version of him, the “Ded Moroz” comes on the New Year evening …
But lets start from the beginning. Here, the Christmas day is celebrated for the two days. The first day is called a Christmas day while the second one is the Boxing day. The first time any reminder of the Christmas celebrations is dated by the 336AD in Rome. By tradition, the Christmas day starts from the evening before by the family dinner. Following the traditions, although we are not Christians, we have decided to take the offer for the dinner. It wasn’t religious family, just our friends so all the celebrations were about having a nice meal with couple of bottles of Cognac and a lot of fun.
I am used to know, from my childhood, that Santa Clouse coming with his presents on the New Year evening. Apparently, he comes on the Christmas day. The name Santa Clouse (from internet sources) comes originally from St. Nicholas and with the years through the Dutch and English language was converted to Sint Nikolaas then to Sinterklaas and finally to the to Santa Claus. By the way, the tradition for the Christmas tree was started originally from Germany. They made the tree decorations and it become very popular. It was prince Albert who brought the first Christmas tree to the royalty at 1836.
On the Christmas day, the city is empty. No people on the streets, the transportation is not working and nothing is open. We decided to visit the BBC building, so we walked around the city for many hours. Checking the map later, we have covered something like 18 kilometres by foot.
During the evening, we have made a walk trying to find anyplace to dink a beer, but nothing come out. We have finished the evening with private dinner which included mesh potatoes, chicken and Jack Daniels.
The origin of the following day (from internet sources), the Boxing day, has come from the many charity boxes which were putted inside the churches for money collecting for the poor people. This day is almost like weekend, most of the people are having a day off with most of the shops closed.
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posted by KGena at 2:50 PM
2 Comments:
Bialik - naalot yafot : tol'ko kto oni?
Dina, I think they look like
bear foot :-)
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