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Sint Maarten
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 3:27 pm
by Rob
Today 11November is always Sint Maarten in Holland.The kids go around the doors with lantarns singing songs for sweets.
Just been out to get some and then we make little packages to give to the kids when they come to the door.
Last year we forgot the sweets and had to sit in darkness till 10 at night pretending we weren't home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7y3TMAa-L4
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:05 pm
by Northern Lass
I bet you did too
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 6:30 pm
by Rob
You know what we've had to turn the lights off again!!! We run out of sweets!!!
Never seen so many kids!! They were coming to the door ten a a time!! Now the whole house is in darkness and i can still hear them outside milling around.!!
I hope they're all gone before Eastenders comes on!! Flippin' Eck!!!
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:07 pm
by grangers14
Is it like Halloween or do they do that too?
Not one child knocked on my door this year for Halloween
Jo
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 9:27 pm
by Rob
The children were probably warned by their parents not to knock on the lady's door who shows her knickers on facebook!!
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2013 11:46 pm
by dudleytaylor
We got home late on Halloween , so hoped we had missed them ,as we had eaten all the sweets ourselves . It was nearly ten, there was a knock at the door !! my hubby opens it and very bravely tells them ,ITS TOO LATE !! They all started laughing. They were all young teenagers ,but they all went off quite happily
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2013 5:13 pm
by grangers14
Rob wrote:The children were probably warned by their parents not to knock on the lady's door who shows her knickers on facebook!!
Eesh Rob! I didnt mean to show my pants!
I was just playing on the sand!
Most of the kids around here used to come here for me to help get them ready and for me to do face paint but they are older now. There isnt many young children here now. Theres only 22 houses here, 2 new ones being built on some land and a Lodge house.
Jo
Re: Sint Maarten
Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 3:09 pm
by snoopysue
Rob wrote:Today 11November is always Sint Maarten in Holland.The kids go around the doors with lantarns singing songs for sweets.
Just been out to get some and then we make little packages to give to the kids when they come to the door.
Last year we forgot the sweets and had to sit in darkness till 10 at night pretending we weren't home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7y3TMAa-L4
In Denmark we eat duck on "Mortens Aften", which is the 10th (Martin's Eve), in rememberence of the geese that gave him away - why we don't eat goose I don't know!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Martin%27s_Day