A big Hello from Germany, Im new here. ;-)

[cille]

It would be great at this point if I could say: "Schleswig??? Are you kidding?? I'm from Holstein myself!!!", but alas..
I do know of it though.. I believe Denmark has a minority down there, and there has been many a political and armed battle about the border..

[Tinkabell74]

Originally Posted by cille

It would be great at this point if I could say: "Schleswig??? Are you kidding?? I'm from Holstein myself!!!", but alas..
I do know of it though.. I believe Denmark has a minority down there, and there has been many a political and armed battle about the border..

yes its true, here were some battles at the boarder....

do you have icq or yahoo? maybe we can talk there a bit.

[cille]

i have msn, but don't have much time logging on these days - boyfriend just moved in..

[Tinkabell74]

i dont have msn.

[Angeline]

Welcome to the igloo, Tinkabell...hope you like it here.

[Tinkabell74]

thank you very much angeline. yes, i like it here very very much. it was a very good idea to register me here.

[Angeline]

Originally Posted by Tinkabell74

thank you very much angeline. yes, i like it here very very much. it was a very good idea to register me here.

Ya i'm glad i did it too...what is christmas like over there is germany? Its pretty quiet where i am..which is good.

[Tinkabell74]

Originally Posted by Angeline

Ya i'm glad i did it too...what is christmas like over there is germany? Its pretty quiet where i am..which is good.

in the moment its very stressful all over here. i hat that. our "real" christmas day will be on the 24. th december. thats good that its pretty quiet where you are. where do you live in ireland? by the way: i loooove ireland and im planing to come back near year for my sixt time.

[Angeline]

Originally Posted by Tinkabell74

in the moment its very stressful all over here. i hat that. our "real" christmas day will be on the 24. th december. thats good that its pretty quiet where you are. where do you live in ireland? by the way: i loooove ireland and im planing to come back near year for my sixt time.

I live in Sligo its the north west of ireland, its quiet enough here..why is our real christmas day on the 24th??? Where in ireland have you been?

[cille]

it's the same for Denmark, we also celebrate the most on the 24th - xmas dinner, dancing and singing around the tree, present exchange.

[Tinkabell74]

Originally Posted by Angeline

I live in Sligo its the north west of ireland, its quiet enough here..why is our real christmas day on the 24th??? Where in ireland have you been?

here in germany we are celebrating (like in denmark ) x-mas on the 24.th with changing presents, eating together.... im not sure, why we are celebrating on the 24. th and the others on the 25. th.

i have been in co. wexford for one week, co. kerry for one week, one week in co. cork, two weeks in co. clare and one week in co. wicklow and traveled around with the car. i saw a lot and miss ireland very much. im planing to come back next year and then i want to see the north.

[cille]

for some reason here in DK we celebrate everything the night BEFORE the holiday. Like the night of san giovanni/John (danish: Skt. Hans) we celebrate on the 23th, the evening before st. John's day, and equally with xmas eve = being the night before xmas day it's the night we really celebrate. We also celebrate st. Martin's evening (Mortens dag) on the evening before the actual date of st. Martin's day. Kinda backwards I guess, but that seems to be the pattern of our celebrations.

[rubi]

Und noch ein Deutscher im Bunde.

Gruß, rubi

[Tinkabell74]

hi rubi!

na dann "herzlich willkommen" im igloo!