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| CHRISTMAS IN ROMANIA 27/12/2007 |
| (2007-12-27) |
| Last updated: 2007-12-31 20:03 EET |
After several very busy days, on which everyone was on a shopping spree, Romanians enjoyed a well-deserved, peaceful Christmas. Most of them celebrated the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ amidst their families or surrounded by friends, near the Christmas tree, listening to carols and offering gifts to their loved ones. Traditional meals like “caltabos”, similar to the Scottish “haggies”, various types of sausages, or “sarmale”, minced meat rolled in sour cabbage leafs and pound cakes were on the menu at Christmas. However not everybody spent Christmas at home, the less lucky (so to say) police officers, firemen, and those ensuring the good functioning of public transportation as well as journalists spent Christmas at their working places. The most requested services those days seemed to be medical services, as the number of emergency ambulance calls reached thousands at this time of the year, in spite of the doctors’ advice, who tried to convince people to refrain from eating and drinking to excess and take long walks, instead.
Unfortunately, some of the Romanians had to celebrate Christmas in the street; not attending concerts or shows staged by local authorities as we would have expected; they took to the streets in protest after several districts in Bucharest and some surrounding communes had been left without electricity for a few hours, due to an overloaded power grid. To add insult to injury, many households remained without heating and hot water. Neither were Christmas tree sellers very happy; after many such vendors had refused to allow price cuts thousands of fir-trees remained unsold as shoppers preferred to buy fir-tree branches or wreaths instead. In recent years, dozens of fir-trees have been uselessly cut during the winter holidays ending up in the dustbin because of a low demand. ..a very sad fact if we take into account that a fir tree needs 20 years to reach the height to be used as a Christmas tree.
Anyway, thousands took advantage of this mini-holiday and left for the mountains, flooding chalets, hotels, ski slopes and skating rinks. Mostly suffering from homesick, the Romanians working or studying abroad were unable to enjoy Christmas in keeping with their traditions. But they tried to share in the joy of Christmas in their countries of residence, by attending church sermons, listening to Christmas carols and tasting traditional dishes.
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