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Discovering Traditions: New Year’s Eve Celebration Soviet Style by Dr Gulara Vincent
Read more: Discovering Traditions: New Year’s Eve Celebration Soviet Style by Dr Gulara VincentAt the last day of this year 2015 I would like to welcome back Dr Gulara Vincent with the inurgal post for the Discovering Traditions guest series. You can find her first guest post on my blog here. New Year’s Eve Celebration Soviet Style by Dr Gulara Vincent As a…
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The year is ending
Read more: The year is endingThe year is coming to its end. Tomorrow at midnight all 365 days of it will be completed. This will be my last post of this year. But please do come here tomorrow as there will be a guest post. Tomorrow my new guest series, about traditions, will start with a…
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A Touching Walk
Read more: A Touching WalkUp the steps and onto the Place de la République we walked. Camera teams, big crowds and people emotionally touched and shaken greeted us. Two weeks and a day after the terrorist attack in Paris, I joined my family on our yearly Thanksgiving walk, which started with paying a tribute…
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Advent Calendar Overview
Read more: Advent Calendar OverviewAdvent Calendar Overview For the first 24 days of December 2015, my blog was turned into a multi-contributor Advent Calendar. It was definitely something fun, even though I realised that doing such a dense series takes a lot of time. I actually did far less writing than I had thought,…
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Christmas Decorations… – Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 8 – Charity Christmas Tree Topper Challenge
Read more: Christmas Decorations… – Hugh’s Photo Challenge: Week 8 – Charity Christmas Tree Topper ChallengeI have mentioned before, that in my family the Christmas tree is revealed on the 24th of December, this way it can be fully enjoyed during the twelve days of Christmas. Some people have the tradition to take it down on Epiphany after letting all the candles burn to the…
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If we were having coffee – 26/12/2015
Read more: If we were having coffee – 26/12/2015If we were having coffee, I’d ask you to be quiet, little one is sleeping, she seems exhausted from Christmas… If we were having coffee, well then we would like always be having tea, and I would propose some Zotter Chocolates. We have more than on the picture, but these…
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Merry Christmas! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Joyeux Noël!
Read more: Merry Christmas! Fröhliche Weihnachten! Joyeux Noël!I would like to wish you a very nice Christmas! That you will make a lot of happy memories during these 12 festive days to come, that you will share good times with your loved ones. Let your heart and mind come to peace, feel the magic, and listen to…
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Advent Calendar Day 24: A German Christmas
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 24: A German ChristmasA German Christmas Most of my blog’s readers know this, I am German, but grew up in Germany the US and France. Still Christmas stayed a completely German affair. Not all parts of Germany are very Christmassy, nor are all Germans Christians. Still Christmas is important. Today, I want to…
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Advent Calendar Day 23: Tom Bowcock’s Eve by Rosie Reast
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 23: Tom Bowcock’s Eve by Rosie ReastTom Bowcock’s Eve by Rosie Reast Many years ago the small fishing village of Mousehole in Cornwall was starving. Constant winter storms made it impossible for the fishermen to go out and catch the fish the village depended on. One winter morning just before Christmas, Tom Bowcock an experienced fisherman,…
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Advent Calendar Day 21: The Advent Calendar by Geoff Le Pard
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 21: The Advent Calendar by Geoff Le PardThe Advent Calendar by Geoff Le Pard ‘What is it, Mum?’ Emily Smith, 14 looked up from her book. Gilly, her mother said, ‘A parcel from Uncle Augustus. What’s he say? Dear Both. I’m so sorry to miss you this Christmas but I found this antique Advent Calendar in a…
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Advent Calendar Day 20: One Tradition After Another by Kerry K
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 20: One Tradition After Another by Kerry KOne Tradition After Another by Kerry K December was always one full month of delicious food, seasonal scents, jingle bells, and sparkle. All month long, one tradition after another, each one better than the last. My younger brother and I were born blind, the two youngest in a family of…
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Advent Calendar Day 19: Holidays are: food and family by Robin Rivera
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 19: Holidays are: food and family by Robin RiveraHolidays are: food and family by Robin Rivera My paternal grandmother made her own tortillas everyday. Although she died of breast cancer when I was only nine, the thing I remember best is her cooking, she kept us well-fed. But it wasn’t always that way, my father told stories about…
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Advent Calendar Day 18: Christmas Music with Kate Edwards
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 18: Christmas Music with Kate EdwardsChristmas Music with Kate Edwards This is ‘Lonely This Christmas’, a song originally written and performed by the British band Mud in 1974. It was Christmas Number One at the time and is a very popular Christmas song still. I am a member of an experimental pop band in the…
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Advent Calendar Day 17: A Stinking Hot, Australian Christmas by Rowena Newton
Read more: Advent Calendar Day 17: A Stinking Hot, Australian Christmas by Rowena NewtonA Stinking Hot, Australian Christmas by Rowena Newton If you’re someone who insists on a white Christmas and needs a hot roast with your boiling hot Plum Pudding, perhaps you’d better visit someone else for Christmas lunch. However, if you’re feeling game, you’re invited to celebrate a true-blue Aussie Christmas with…
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