Although it's not even Saint-Nicholas (December 6th), we decided yesterday afternoon to put up the Christmas decoration already. Everyone is doing it. All the streets in the various towns are already in Chrismas mood. The big fir tree is up at the Grand Place in Brussels and despite the corona measure the light festival is going on as well. According to the news, there were a whole lot of people at the Grand Place to watch it - which is not very clever, imo. They should have cancelled the light festival for this year.
We were in Brussels for a weekend last year, and also watched it. It's quite beautiful and worth going out for. I remember it was a cold night, but this was before corona and then you could still buy a cup of mulled wine at one or other stall...
I quite like the atmosphere around Chrismas. It's a special season, although this year it will be somewhat different. Not so much for us, as we don't have any close family which we meet regularly. We are used to celebrating by the two of us. So Chrismas and New Year's Eve will only be that different in the way we can't go to a restaurant but have to order take-away instead. Luckily all the best restaurants in Knokke-Heist are preparing food boxes for the festive season, so there will be more than enough choice.
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