Foreign Perspectives

That’s the question we’re asking everyone that comes here at the moment.

A few weeks ago, Poland unexpectedly moved into the starting grid when a Polish family assured us that they do a “proper” Christmas with Christmas trees and carols.

The Belgium family with us tonight have moved that country up a few notches though. Belgium is a slightly peculiar amalgam of France and Holland and therefore takes traditions from both sides. Net effect? They do Christmas in the way us northern Europeans/Anglosaxons expect and also do New Year as the French do.

Germany is still in the running though we’ve not had any Germans staying for a while so we’ve had to start researching the options ourselves.

How to get there is the next issue to think about. Pricing-wise there’d be little in it between driving to Belgium or southern Germany as compared to flying there but either would take us around 12 hours of driving ie two days and probably around EUR 100 each for petrol and tolls.