Bought our Christmas Tree yesterday. It was an exorbitant 4 euros. It's a cute little thing that has lights and we got chocolate balls wrapped in gold foil decorations. Edible Christmas tree decorations....what a fabulous idea! Whether or not there will be any decorations left on Dec 25th is another thing. Maybe we'll have a bare Christmas tree with little bits of scrap foil around it. The evening of 5th December is when the Dutch celebrate Christmas (Sinterklaas) with their families and the kids get their presents. We'll be going to a Christmas Party on that night with other expats in the neighbourhood. It's a dinner party and everyone has to bring a national dish. We're doing a main dish and I must admit, it was a struggle coming up with an Aussie national dish. We don't have a barbie as we don't have an outdoor area with our apartment, bangers and mash seems rather boring...a lamb roast, perhaps?...but at 35 euros a kilo lamb is a luxury item over here, and kangaroos are hard to find here. After flicking through many cookbooks, I think we'll make a big beef pie. Four 'n' twenty, that's as Aussie as you can get, right?
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