Tag: sinterklaas

  • Sinterklaas, (no not Santa Claus…)

    Sinterklaas, the Holy Man, is on his way. He is terribly old and old-fashioned. He lives in Spain and every year around the beginning of december he travels up north by steamboat -no he has not yet heard about globalization, he only travels to Belgium, Holland and a part of Germany- to give the kids…

  • Sinterklaas

    I thought it’s about time I taught you some Belgian/Dutch tradition. The tradition of Sinterklaas, the “original” Sante Claus. Sinterklaas is a saint who lives in Spain. Every year he comes to Belgium and Holland with a steamer, just before the 5th of december. That is his day. Or better, his night. That night he goes…