"is it me or is it the ship ?"

I was thinking of it for the last couple of days. The winter holidays hare are not the same as I expected it to be.

The News Year evening for me was the most important event of the year. I used to have it with the family members at the special dinner which is a great party. The party followed by the best and funniest television shows on one of the Russian channels and I liked to be stacked to the box for that. As it seems to be, the most celebrated evening of the year, The New Years Evening, is mostly celebrated only in Russian tradition.

Now it is clear that in most of the world, the Christmas Day is more important then the New Years evening. Here in London, the Christmas Day is the family day while the New Year evening is a partying with friends. Actually the New Years evening is not extremely celebrated as the Christmas day. I was really surprised to find everybody going exactly after the fireworks of the noon.

There are couple additional differences which I was amazed to find, the main one is that the Santa with his presents are coming on Christmas day. (Probably because then he has enough time to travel to Russia to be ready giving the New Years presents) And another fact is that the Christmas trees are thrown away on the next day after the holidays, which is 2 of jan ! (From my childhood memories, the tree was standing there till it was almost falling by it self … around 16-20 January)



I have decided, that on one of the days I will have to go to Russia for the New Year holidays, maybe all I see around is normal and it is my faked imagination is looking for the differences !

p.s The name for this post is quoted from the conversation of me with one of guys on the night ship which travelled Oslo->Chopenhagen a couple of years ago. We were drinking whiskey. At some point we couldn’t move straight and failed to realise if it was because of us who were drunking or because of the ship which made strange movements.