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CosmicMouse
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Happy "Nikolaus" :)
Hi people,
6th of december - today we celebrate "Nikolaus" in Germany.
The kids have cleaned their boots and put them into the window last night, and they happily found in the morning that the "Nikolaus" has filled up their shoes with nuts, apples, tangerines, chocolate and little presents.
I would like to know in which countries you also have this kind of pre-x-mas tradition? How do you celebrate it - or how did you celebrate it when you were a child? Share your "Nikolaus"-Stories with us! 
Here is a small Nikolaus present from me (with Sola's help!) for you Jamirotalkers. Enjoy!
Mouse
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Geuze
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Location: Finland
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 14:25 |
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Hello!
I think we have no Nikolaus -theme here in Finland. Today we have our independence day, though. The President castle party broadcasts on tv with guests including politicians and celebrities.
13th is Saint Lucia's day, so that is more known. And also "Tuomas" (Thomas) is mentioned as who is brining the christmas season with Tuomaan markkinat (Thomas' Market) in the streets ..
But we drink a lot of booze now (pre-christmas parties) and these times married couples tend to cheat eachother the most 
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Dye
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 17:14 |
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Hi there
Nope, we don't have pre Christmas celebrations in here. Santa Claus (or Papa Noel, called down here) is the only fat guy who comes down to fill our Christmas trees the midnight in December 25th 
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Catalonia is not Spain
Joined: 12 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 19:22 |
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I think we don't have a Nikolaus celebration.
Either in Spain and in Catalonia we celebrate Papa Noel (like Diego said) in 25th December, and on 6th January "Wizard kings" (Reyes Magos, called down here) come to give us presents from Orient. But if we've been bad guys during the previous year they give us funny charcoal made by sugar. However, they don't use to filled up shoes with presents, I think it's a common tradition in USA and in center-north Europe, isn't it?. 
In Catalonia we also celebrate "cagatió", we knock a slice of a tree coloured with a happy face and overcast with a blanket. If we knock as hard as we can, the slice "shit" and give us some presents |
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mr.az
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 20:13 |
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| Diego// Twenty Zero Three wrote: |
Hi there
Nope, we don't have pre Christmas celebrations in here. Santa Claus (or Papa Noel, called down here) is the only fat guy who comes down to fill our Christmas trees the midnight in December 25th
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we need learn of other countries
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Cosmic Girl
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
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Location: Zürich, Switzerland
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 20:46 |
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Re: Happy "Nikolaus" :)
| CosmicMouse wrote: |
Hi people,
6th of december - today we celebrate "Nikolaus" in Germany.
The kids have cleaned their boots and put them into the window last night, and they happily found in the morning that the "Nikolaus" has filled up their shoes with nuts, apples, tangerines, chocolate and little presents.
I would like to know in which countries you also have this kind of pre-x-mas tradition? How do you celebrate it - or how did you celebrate it when you were a child? Share your "Nikolaus"-Stories with us!
Here is a small Nikolaus present from me (with Sola's help!) for you Jamirotalkers. Enjoy!
Mouse |
same here in switzerland like in germany |
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monisum
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Location: Germany
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 21:42 |
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Meike you forgot the "Nikolaus walk" in Germany 
Kids are walking in the late afternoon from shop to shop and after singing a little christmas song or saying a christmas poem they get sweets from the shop people. Good singers or poem sayers collect quite big bags full of sweets home...
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Spanish Cozmik Girl
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 22:22 |
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Happy Nikolaus there!
Here in Spain, today 6th of December, we celebrate the Spanish Constitution day 'cause the constitution was made today in 1978 but it has nothing to do with any x-mas celebration
Enjoy this day there in Germany!! 
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Lydster
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 17:37 |
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| Catalonia is not Spain wrote: |
| and on 6th January "Wizard kings" (Reyes Magos, called down here) come to give us presents from Orient. |
Oh yes, we also have this tradition in Germany, but it's a bit different here. Here, kids dress up as those kings and walk around in the town and collect money. But not for themselves, they give it to poor children in other countries, in Africa for example. We call it "Sternsinger" here. I'll take a photo of me dressed up as Balthasar, the black king! |
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freaky
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 19:56 |
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We celebrate some of that stuff too!!
The wizards, we call it three kings, but the kids don't dress up.
They go round the neighbourhoud singing for sweets.
And Sinterklaas, we celebrated that on the 5th of december.
It's a great fear for the kids, naughty kids will get no presents and if they are really bad....taken to spain!
My cousin is so scared, we can use this celebration al through the year! |
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