This year I had a very different Christmas.
For a start, I am in Reims, France, where I celebrated it with very dear old friends, Nelly, her husband Christophe, their son Ivan and Christophe’s parents who were visiting from Epernay.
We wanted to see the Christmas market in Alsace or Colmar but alas! it was not to be [...]
Warning!
This post is a repeat.
Yeah, I know, I know… It just happens that it was one of my first posts and I was only beggining to learn the tricks of the trade (or blogging, to be precise). And it just went bonkers, the font went small all of a sudden and the photos disappeared. [...]
Yesterday the feast of Sankta Lucia was celebrated all over Sweden.
It might seem a bit odd that the feast of a Sicilian Catholic saint should be so important in Sweden.
Perhaps the explanation lies in that the feast falls on 13 of December right in the middle of Advent.
The name Lucia derives from lux [...]
