Christmas traditions all over the world

I recently read an article on the online version of "whychristmas.com" and it talks about different traditions in other countries.

I thought you might be interested because it's christmas time ...

First of all I am telling you something about the canadian traditions.

They send their biggest fir or pine to Boston because the Boston people helped them some time ago. A very common tradition is the "Mummering", people dress up and knock on somebody's door and ask if they are allowed to come in. Then they eat the christmas cake and celebrate together.

In Spain most people go to the "Midnight Mass" and after the meal people go through the streets playing guitars, beating on tambourines and drums. The children get their presents not on Christmas Day, but on Epiphany.

The Italian children get their presents from La Befana, she is a old witch who visits every household in the night of Janurary 5th. Cannons are fired from Castel St. Angelo in Rome to announce the beginning of Christmas time.

Merry Christmas to everyone!!

FlyNiki to offer Bulgaria link

I read an article the other day in the online edition of “austriantimes.at” and it talks about the new Austrian budget airline of FlyNiki.

I thought you might be interested because FlyNiki is an Austrian airline.

Basically what it talks about is that FlyNiki run a flight from Vienna to Bulgaria, because there isn’t a link at the moment. It is also said that there was a competition with four other European low-cost airlines who already offered a connection to Sofia.

Sofia will not be the only addiction to FlyNiki’s destinations.

What surprised me most was the fact that they are starting new routes although we are in the financial crises.

Vocabulary:

link (Verbindung): If something is linked with an other thing, there is a link between them.

original link:

http://www.austriantimes.at/news/Business/2009-12-16/18920/FlyNiki_to_offer_Bulgaria_link