Tuesday, December 7, 2010

December 6

December 6 is not only the birthday of Ulf Ekberg from Ace of bace...
my focus will neither be on Finland though it is their national day...
now someone might have in mind that this was the day that London became the world's first city to host licenced taxicabs...
but my focus will naturally be on Greece as this is one of the days that will fall into my study of important Greek days.
December 6 is the day of άγιος Νικόλαος (saint Nicholas)- Nicholas the wonderworker!
He is the saint for the kids and the sailors. Said is that he had a habbit of putting coins in peopels shoes.
In Greece (in differens from other europen countrys that are celebrating st Nicholas) he does not come with gifts, the greek children has to wait till new year to get their presents.
But I guess st Nicholas is the reson that Greeks are decorating their boats like Christmas trees at this season.
And then of course, it's another day for the kids to be off school and for the shops to be closed.

Two years ago this day also was given another mening as a young boy, Alexis Grigoropoulos, was killed by a police. Read more about it here.

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