Scandinavia and the World
Scandinavia and the World

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Merry Ukrainian Christmas 27 12, 12:59am

@Wortel

Yeah, but you're kind of an outlier in the Netherlands with your celebration of Saint Nicholaus, a catholic saint, while being a predominantly protestant country - as far as I know?
I guess it's a sign of your traditional religions tolerance that you've mixed Catholicism and Protestantism like that.

"In the English speaking world, the dinner is on the -eve and the presents, celebrations, etcetra are on the -day right?"

Is that actually so? I was under the impression that the -eve was kind of not very important at all in the English speaking word, presents where given Christmas Day morning and dinner and other celebrations held later that day?
Anyone from the English speaking world that would like to add their two cents on this?

So what do you do on Christmas Eve in the Netherlands then? Nothing special at all? Is it a regular workday (if it falls on a weekday) or is the day a national holiday?

Spending Boxing day and Easter Monday on IKEA sounds like a punishment to me. IKEA is always ridiculously packed where I live (and my local IKEA store is the largest one in the world, on the south side of Stockholm) and on any holidays it's obviously even worse then on a weekday.
But then you're female and if Dutch people resemble Swedes it's probably something in your gene pool that makes you love IKEA - just as there's something in mine that makes me hate it. ;-)

At least I haven't met a female Swede yet that doesn't LOVE IKEA.