Christmas in Holland

After 6 December (Saint Nicolas), the Dutch prepare for Christmas. They set up the Christmas tree and decorate it, and they get their Christmas decorations out of the cabinet and decorate their house. Sometimes they overdo themselves like on this picture. It is more like a contest of who has the most notable house. Anyway, then the time comes, the first day of Christmas. The Dutch have sometimes go to church, even if you are not Christian some go to church at Christmas time. But most of the time, you invite someone or a family over to eat diner with you, or you go to someone to diner. The second day of Christmas, we do the same. But you don’t go to church if you have already been there on the first day of Christmas.

Peter