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Many thanks to Karen Percy for today’s guest post. There are a lot of similar Christmas traditions between Canada and the UK. To get ready for the big event, we’ll put up the tree we just bought from a Christmas tree farm, or better yet, cut one down ourselves at the U-Cut. Almost every house …
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Christmas trees have to be imported, mostly from Denmark, because trees don’t grow that far north. Every village puts a tree on the nearest hilltop so that everybody can see it, and then people decorate their own Christmas trees on 23rd December. Most houses also have an illuminated star in their windows. It doesn’t get …
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This is a guest post from my lovely husband, Ian. Christmas in South Africa is celebrated in different ways, as you would expect from a country with such cultural diversity. The main differences are between white “European” and black “African” celebrations. However, what they all have in common is the fact that Christmas is a …
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In Russia the Christmas holidays run from December 31st to 10th January, with Christmas Day being celebrated on 7th January. Why 7th January and not 25th December? Well, not all countries adopted the Gregorian calendar at the same time. 25th December according to the Julian calendar falls on 7th January according to the Gregorian one, …
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In Italy, Christmas celebrations begin 8 days before Christmas day with a period known as the Novena, which is a series of prayers. During this time children dress up as shepherds, and go door to door singing, reciting poems and playing pipes and the householders give them money. The man decoration is the nativity scene …
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