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Saint Nicolas Celebration

Last night I took a train to Prague to meet up with Honza and Sarka to celebrate Saint Nicolas Day. According to tradition, a trio of St. Nicolas, a devil and an angel walk around the city and distribute candies to good children.  For some reason, every kid  become well-behaved on that day as everybody ended up with a handful of candies. Devils are seen at each corner of the street since all they need are flashing horns on their heads or disguise their faces with scary makeup.

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Three of us had a light dinner at Hybernia where I discovered an typical European craving. Can you believe that Honza ordered a cheese snack comprised of few slices of cheese, three cubes of butter, five slices of toasted breads, three pieces of baby tomato, and a lettuce leaf. He savoured his plate as if he had never eaten any real food before.

Friend’s comment:

Ahoj

Reading your articles about Prague, some latino dancing is on the roof of Kotva building, my friend wen there to dance Salsa.
Cheese craving - if you were a daily whiteness of something adoration from your youth, you would do the same, for me was funny that many Cape-Verdians hate garlic and eat it with only deepest bravery. When I was cooking some Placki - something like creppes du tomato for them and added there garlic they yelled at me that I must be mad. When I replied that in my country it is normal to make of it a soup and that it is delicious, their faces deformed by psychical suffering. To hate and love mostly is not the matter of personal experience but just prejudice.