Christmas tree in progress

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We walked to the neighbouring village through the woods today before the sun set for the project closing meeting there. It was a great day.



They started decorating their Christmas tree there already. It will get much busier when they are done I was told. They start late here with Christmas stuff compared to Western Europe so this is considered early, there are no signs of Christmas decorations in our village yet. I think they are later than we are with this because Christmas is not that commercialised here so nobody is incentivised to start getting people in festive mood asap to sell stuff.

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[manintheboat.livejournal.com]

Eastern Orthodox Christmas is later.
http://www.christianpost.com/news/why-the-orthodox-church-celebrates-christmas-on-jan-7-66615/

[topum.livejournal.com]

That's mostly a Church holiday here, the tree is only weakly associated with it, it is mostly about the New Year (they call it New Year Fir here even not Christmas tree). Also, in "Mother Romania" (which is also Orthodox) 25th is now the official Christmas holiday day. But none of the Christmases can rival the New Year Eve / Day here. This is because during the Soviet times Christmas was not celebrated at all and people got accustomed that it is all about the New Year. Christmas is for going to church quietly mostly and for carol singing in the villages, that they still do on the 7th.