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Sinterklaas Eve

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Location:

Netherlands - Amsterdam

Date:

From: 2013.12.04 To: 2013.12.04

Category:

• Family
• Celebrations

Tags:

• Religious

Official website:

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Description

Everybody in the Netherlands knows what December 5 is. Particularly for children, it’s a very exciting evening. St. Nicholas, an elderly bishop from Spain, will have arrived in the Netherlands a few weeks earlier aboard a steamship crammed with presents. On December 5, he visits all children who have been good in the past year to give them presents. Some of the parcels come with a small poem. Story sounds familiar? Could well be. Santa Claus, much loved by American kids, picked up a few tips from his Dutch colleague.

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