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This week: Do you like spending Christmas in Spain?
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Impart your wisdom, give us your opinions and share your experiences! We want to hear them in ‘Topic of the Week’ - a new section in The Euro Weekly News which we hope will soon become the Costa’s principal discussion forum for all the issues that interest readers and affect Costa living.
Sun shining on tinsel gives me the collywobbles. I like being able to sit outside to drink my coffee on Christmas morning and I suppose, on balance, I do like spending Christmas here - but the Mediterranean climate isn’t Christmassy. Penny Armstrong.
As an English father living in Spain I enjoy Christmas here more than in England. Life here is family-orientated the holiday mood lasts until January 6. Where we live, there is a life-size Nativity scene with live animals in the city centre, surrounded each day by wide-eyed children.
There are donkey rides, too and the whole thing is so memorable that our little boy, who is not quite three, remembered last year’s donkey ride and immediately clamoured for another. The high spot of the holidays centres round children again when the Three Kings, bringing presents, arrive at the football stadium on the night of January 5th. Once they came by helicopter and another time, were parachuted in, so now the kids are all wondering what will happen this year. Another reason why I like Christmas in Spain is that the Christmas story has not been entirely forgotten. Richard Bruce.
I like Christmas anywhere because it’s in the heart and not on a map and it does not really need any particular type of weather or food. The only White Christmas I have ever known, though, was in Madrid, when I stayed there many years ago. Bernadette Nash.
This is my first Christmas in Spain and I find it frustrating. It must be all very well for people living in tourist areas where you can get everything from ready-made marzipan to crackers but I live in the back of beyond where they think Christmas cards are a foreign innovation.
I wanted a real Christmas tree but the only object I tracked down at the local food market was eighteen inches high, with four spiky branches, at 35 euros. What passes here for a department store had just one artificial tree, costing 150 euros! The credit crunch and recession put that way beyond our means so I went to the local Chinese shop where I found a series of bottle brushes plugged into a broomstick. Beggars can’t be choosers, so I chose it and I also scooped a lifetime supply of plastic decorations. Glass balls? You must be joking. Tracey Marshall.
I belong to my town’s cycling club, the only Briton amongst 30 men aged between 19 and 65. On Christmas Eve, while our wives are getting everything ready for the evening’s dinner, we take ourselves off for an uphill ride that takes most of the morning. We stop for a huge almuerzo, washed down with calimocho (Coca Cola and wine) with a few carajillos (preferably with Baileys) to keep the cold out and keep our strength up. You’ll see some of us weaving a bit on the way home, but not to worry: it’s downhill all the way. David Wilde.
Christmas in Spain can be labour-saving. This is the first time I’ve had the family for Christmas but I shall be buying two spit-roasted legs of lamb for our Nochebuena dinner and we’ll all go out on Christmas Day. Our son, of two-and-a-half, goes to a marvellous nursery which only closes on December 25 and January 6 and, as my husband has two weeks leave from work, we’re having a second honeymoon too! I just hope that everyone else has such a wonderful holiday!
Alicia Gonzalez.
The only fault I can find with spending Christmas in Spain is that children expect the same Christmas customs as their Spanish friends and their British friends. It makes double the work and double the expense. Margaret Nolan.
For Edition 1228 on January 15, Topic of the Week will be “Taxes in Spain, do you understand them?” so please send your views and experiences to editorial@euroweeklynews.com - stating the subject “Topic of the Week” – or fax us on 96 584 5280. If there’s a topic that you would like to suggest for future discussion, drop us a line at the same email address. Please note that we may edit your letter and use only relevant parts. |  Return to Top
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