How will you make your holidays more European?

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Dec 11th, 2002, 04:36 PM

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Moonebam

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we have always started out christmas morning..well at least for the last 15 years, with fresh grapefruit from our trees and Panetonne. But later in the day , we go back to our english side. Big roast beef and yorkshire pudding, roasties, etc, and cheese and a christmas pudding. Crackers are above each place but not pulled until after the meal..before the cheese. We make a circle with hands..so you pull the neighbors on either side and they pull yours and they all explode at once! After buying really good ones with the heavier trinkets and almost losing some very good wineglasses, I am sticking to the ones with cheap plastic goodies! And we all wear our crowns and act silly for the rest of the evening. In fact one set of friends who come every year to Christmas dinner have been known to show up at parties later on in the year wearing them.

Dec 11th, 2002, 07:12 PM

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Ronda

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I brought home "fold out model cards" of Paris - Eiffel Tower, Paris Street, Notre Dame, etc. Have set them up instead of a Christmas Village. I also brought home a box of Debauve & Gallais Chocolate which is hidden in the refrigerator and one from a shop on Rue Cler. The chocolates from Brussels didn't make it to Chritmas! Merry Christmas!

Dec 11th, 2002, 07:19 PM

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Tex

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I would add that I would not welcome any Turkey for the holidays, just like Europe.

Dec 11th, 2002, 07:19 PM

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Ronda

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I was so taken by Martin Schongauer's Virgin in the Rosebush in the Dominican Church in Colmar that I bought cards of the painting and I am sending these out as Christmas Cards. The colors are just beautiful and the sides fold in to cover the card just like the original painting. I am hoping recepients will find the picture as moving and beautiful as I did. I found this painting so remarkable as the colors in it are so vibrant even though it was painted in 1473, especially the red gown of the Virgin Mary. If you are ever in Colmar, be sure to go see it.

Dec 11th, 2002, 07:27 PM

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Ronda

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If you would like to see the Virgin in the Rosebush by Martin Schongauer as well as other of his paintings, go to: http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/s/schongau/index.html