h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello travellingqueen!
I picked up your name on another thread and thought I'd check out your space. I'm fomerly from England but live in Spain, slightly warmer than Norway I think. Been here for 27 years now and really wouldn't want to live anywhere else. What's Christmas like in Norway, do the Norwegians celebrate much the same way as the English? Just wondering... In Spain they go overboard, but then the Spaniards throw themselves into everything with great gusto!
Anyway, I hope you have a great Christmas and wish you all the best for 2004.

dl

oops, it should have been travelling queen! I forgot the space
dl

I think I've now made all pertinent corrections!!!
dl

hi
just found your message ..heres a short summary of christmas in norway ..hope you find it intresting ..

On the day before Christmas Eve the whole family gathers to decorate the tree with colorful "balls", bells, electric lights, flags and things the kids have made at school. And then the presents are layed under the tree. The children can barely keep their fingers off.


In the morning and during the day of Christmas Eve you go to visit friends and family to deliver and collect gifts and wish them a happy Christmas. And when that is done you spend the rest of the day finishing everything and watching Disney cartoons on TV.


The Christmas dinner starts at 17.00 (5 pm). Children, parents, grand parents and maybe aunts and uncles are gathered to eat a big holiday meal; usually pork and other sorts of meat with potatoes and other accessories.

The dinner lasts for one to two hours. The adults drag the time out just to bring the children to the edge of excitment. They have to wash dishes, eat five portions of dessert and make and drink 12 cups of coffee... at least!


Then the time for opening Christmas gifts has come. If there are small children in the house, Santa comes for a visit. Strangely enough he has exactly the same watch as Dad, and what a shame Dad can't see 'cause he is in the toilet! Santa delivers the gifts, talks to the children and then has to leave to go to other children. And just when Santa is gone, Dad comes back from the toilet. Too bad he can't see Santa this year either. In my family we picked one in the family (one of the children usually) to read the labels and hand out the gifts. Then the person opens the gift while the others are watching. When the gift-thing is over all relax and eat more, cookies or other snacks, and the kids play with their toys or whatever they got for Christmas.


Christmas Day is also spent with the immediate family, eating a big meal. No one visits friends before the second day of Christmas (26th). It's an "unwritten law.
nice hearing from you and i hope to hear from you again soon.. "god jul og godt nytt år" .....maeve..x