Last Christmas I gave you my heart ..... well, not really, but I did sent out a tweet on twitter every day as my Advent calendar. I left every entry on my German for Fun page but now it's time for something new:
As of Thursday I will post a daily blog entry about a different German Christmas Carol, one for every day until Christmas - my calorie-free Advent Calendar.
That's the old trick question, isn't it? Trying to get you to say: 'In October, of course' and then replying gleefully, 'No, it isn't. It's in September!' Well, it is in October, at least it finishes in October, but it always starts in September, and this year, 2011, it starts tomorrow, the 17th September.
Fancy going, but wouldn't know where to start once you're in Munich?
Don't fancy going, but wouldn't mind finding out more about it?
Not bothered either way, but a little bit of prac...
As promised yesterday, here is another idea with eggs for Easter. How about a lovely Easter tree?
You'll want to decorate the eggs as described yesterday except, this time you don't need hardboiled eggs. They need to be hollow. To get the egg white and yolk out of the eggs, keep them at room temperature first of all, as they will be hard to blow out if cold. Hold the raw egg carefully over a bowl and very carefully make a hole at both ends of the egg with a big sewing needle, making sure to pu...
It's great fun hiding and finding those lovely big chocolate Easter eggs on Easter Sunday, but in Germany we have the tradition of decorating hard boiled eggs. When I was a child my dad used to hide loads of decorated hard boiled eggs and a few chocolate eggs in the garden which we children then had to find. One year we could not find one of the chocolate eggs - I wonder if it's still there ;-)
Anyway, if you fancy having a go at decorating your own eggs, here are 10 very simple steps:
Are you a man travelling around Germany on Thursday? If you are - beware!
This Thursday is the beginning of the end of the carnival season in Germany. The German carnival season starts on the 11th of November at 11.11am. For most of the season (which is also called ‘the fifth season’ in Germany) it’s very low key, just the odd bit of entertainment and mainly preparation for the last few days before Lent. This year those last few days start on Thursday, 3rd March. The highlights are the p... Continue reading ...
In many areas of Germany children will go out tonight with their lanterns and sing this song.
But why?
The 11 November is St Martin's Day (Martinstag). Martin was a Roman soldier who was always very kind and helpful. One legend tells the story of Martin meeting a beggar in a snowstorm. Martin cut his cloak in half and shared it with the beggar so that he wouldn't die of the cold. That night he dreamt of Jesus saying that Martin shared the cloak with him. For more information about St... Continue reading ...
When I still lived in Germany there was no Halloween. The only time we heard about it was when we watched American horror films or any other American films which happened around Halloween.
I didn't really know anything about Halloween until I moved to England and the first children came knocking on my door calling "trick or treat!"
But things are changing, actually, I should say, have changed. During the late 1990s more and more newspaper article about Halloween appeared in Germany and since th... Continue reading ...
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