Saved this video for Christmas Eve here in the U.S. and it did not disappoint! Totally put me in the holiday spirit and I could not stop laughing at Jess's description of the "poop log" HA! Watching these podcasts always makes me feel like I'm hanging out with friends and I'm so glad you started it this year! Merry Christmas!!
Love both your RUclips channel and now this podcast addition. My kiddos have started watching with me, and my girls adore little Hunter! My New Year resolution is to get to take our four kids on adventures while we live here in Alaska (military). Top of the list is dog sledding, whale watching, and taking a glacier tour.
Hi Stephen and Jess and Chloe, thank you again for putting lots of smiles on my face. Talking about traditions was interesting for me this year as my husband died last month so this was our first Christmas without him so we kept some traditions the same and started some new ones but most of all made sure we made it about being with the ones you love. Love hearing and watching your stories. Can't wait to see Hunters first Christmas and more of the van! God bless
in Russia, we don't really celebrate Christmas (some of the families do but on the 6th and 7th of January). Instead, we celebrate the New Year. We sit with our families, eat dinner, drink champagne, and watch the countdown and different old soviet movies. Then some people like to set off fireworks and everyone watches it from the window. Presents are given to kids by Ded Moroz (grandad Frost in English) before or after midnight. And every family has its own traditions, different in every family. Loved the podcast!!
St Nick's day is the best. sometimes prefer it to Christmas. My mum is German and we are going to continue to do it for our babies too. So cute. Jess you should add it to your Christmas traditions :)
Santa would always give out the presents in our household too (they would have to wear the Santa hat) and it would take hours and hours for us to open them all but was such a nice way to do presents. We still do it as adults.
In Spain it is also celebrated on the 6th of January the visit of the 3 wise men who bring the presents to the kids. That same day is typical to eat “roscon de reyes” which is like a cake that has a small present or money inside. It is said that the one who gets the present has to paid the cake 😂. Love the podcast 💚💚
Would LOVE to go on a Christmas expedition like you said to a few European countries for the different Christmas markets!!! I want to do that already & would be awesome to do as an expedition with you all!!!
I absolutely looove watching this vlog again a year later! So much to cover! I would love to join you guys on a Christmas Market Expedition! I am SO there already in my mind!!! I also love that Hunter will get her Christmas card this year! We have Ukrainian and UK traditions in our house on Christmas Eve! We take 2 - 3 days making everything as it is truly a labor of love - this consists of home made Potato Bread Rolls, Cinnamon rolls, Christmas butter cookies dipped in dark chocolate, Chocolate dipped gingerbread cookies, regular sugar cookies (these all have Ukrainian names which I won't confuse you too much with) then we make the savory things such as Borscht with a mushroom homemade type dumpling inside, Fish in the oven, Breaded Shrimp, Tarter sauce, Honey Barley and poppy seed salad and last but definitely not least two of our favorites - what you would know from Poland as Perogies - but these are pronounced much different in the Ukrainian language which are stuffed with a cheesy mashed potato and covered with scorched butter or sour cream on top! It is the most scared of recipes in our family and we absolutely love them! The second last thing was also a desert dumpling pronounced or called, "kinedly" which are the same kind of dumpling but have a sugar plum filling inside again with scorched butter on top - to die for!!!! ❤❤❤❤💖💖💖💖 We would not start to eat until the first star came out at night and if it was cloudy we would wait until it was dark. Then after dinner we would open 1 present each on Christmas eve and then wait until early morning for the rest after Santa would come! :)
Hi. I am a 79 year old as of last Tuesday and I love your vlogs and Hunter must see more of her. May I wish you all a happy Christmas & better New Year. Lol Harry.
So here writing from Spain! Just to clarify a little bit more about the poop log situation: this poop log lives in the forest during the year and when Christmas season arrives it comes down the mountain and one day (beginning of December) it arrives at your door step; also there are families that go into the forest and search for him when this time of the year arrives. Actually, a lot of people in Spain don't know about this tradition because it's only celebrated in Catalonia, a region in the north of the peninsula. Maybe we'll sent you some videos on Christmas Eve :)
Thank you for uploading this! Spending Christmas Eve alone for the first time, this definitely helped and made me laugh. I'm Canadian and in my family we open Christmas presents like Jess's family. It does take hours!! lol
Hi, Sint Nikolas is also a big tradition in the Netherlands. Here he is called Sinterklaas and his helpers are called Piet. It´s on the 5th of december and children put their shoes in front of the fireplace or next to the door. In the shoes are carrots for the horse of Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas and his Pieten come from Spain with a boat and he rides across the rooftops to put presents through the chimney. But secretly the parents take the carrots out and put presents and sweets (pepernoten) in. When the children didnt behave that year parents threaten that you don't get presents and that Piet can come with a bag and take you back to Spain. There's also another tradition where people draw numbers with a person's name on it and buy gifts for each other. The gifts are wrapped in a handcrafted piece, which is called a surprise. You also have to write a poem for the other person and you need to read the poem out loud. This is also done by adults.
Stories from Flying the Nest; They've gone around the world and now they've got a baby girl. Jess and Steve, Steve and Jess. Most wholesome channel? The answer is yes. A van in Australia, Window out of place, ginger beer for breakfast, it's never a dull day. Thank you for the joy, sweet and sincere. I can't wait to see, what you do for next year :) Merry Christmas from Hanna's Hiatus!
I get so excited when I see a Flying the Nest notification. Always such good videos and podcasts which feel so wholesome and positive. Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year
I'm from Romania and we also have the St. Nicholas tradition! When we moved to the states we continued the tradition and carried it over. Planning on passing it on to my future kids too :) love you guys! thanks for the Christmas special!
So shocked when I heard my answer (Kasia from Poland)! Such a fun podcast, love hearing more from my favorite travelers! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021 🥳
Hi! I enjoyed watching your Christmas special episode on Christmas morning in front of my tree with a cup of tea :) Great way to start Christmas Day with some cheer and smiles
Thank you once again for a fabulous podcast, I was literally so excited that you read out what I said on the last podcast I took off my headphones and let my hubby listen hahaha thank you, guys :) Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and let's hope the Coronavirus clears off so you can get travelling around the world again and we can join in with all your adventures. Oh and one of our odd Christmas traditions is we always have homemade mushy peas with our turkey dinner. xx
Hiii Stephen, Jess and Cleo! Love hearing your podcasts. Today I had to clean my messy wardrobe and hearing your podcast helped me enjoy the moment hahah. Greetings from Brazil!!
Do you all celebrate the 6th of January? We have a tradition in Belgium on 'driekoningen' so the three kings day (refers to the 3 wise men from the Bible who visit baby Jesus). On that day we eat a cake BUT in the cake there is a 'bean' hidden (this is often a small ornament) whoever finds the little bean in their piece of cake is 'king for the day' and gets to wear a crown 👑 (often that's delivered with the cake you get from the bakery)
In Mexico, we also eat a special cake called Rosca. There are a few dolls representing baby Jesus hidden inside the cake (they are around 3-4 cm long). The people who get one baby Jesus have to buy tamales (a Mexican traditional food) on Feb. 2nd (I don’t know why in that specific day) for all the assistants to the gathering that took place on Jan. 6th, so it’s kind of a punishment 😂😂
So funny! In spain we also celebrate the 3 magic kings( Los tres reyes magos) on the 6 th january, that day we open presents and lunch with family. We also eat that cake called Roscón, and the person who finds the bean inside has to pay the cake😂
it’s just ticked over to christmas eve here in melbourne, and now i’m even more excited for christmas!! another wonderful podcast! merry christmas stephen, jess, chleo and hunter!
Thank you for reading my question! :) I'm sad Hunter won't get her Christmas postcard this year, but glad that she will have something to look forward to next year. I love your podcast! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!
Merry christmas flying the nest fam!!! Thank you for recognizing the unique culture of the philippines christmas. We do really have a lot of unique christmas traditions here! Hope you visit during christmas time!!!
Hi Stephen Jess and Cleo. I'm a South African, regarding the Christmas tradition held here in S.A Mopani worms are a traditional dish for the African ppl. Its not popular amoungst the white ppl here. Many family's here would eat a traditional Christmas fruit cake, which is famous in S.A. people would also drive around looking at the Christmas light at night or even go to the Botanical gardens / Melrose arch ect where the lights are set up there for families to enjoy. All depending on where in SA they live. We would also make either a big roast like a leg of lamb or also some finger snacks and have the family get together to open presents.
In Canada, bon bons are chocolates, and those things are called Christmas crackers. We do buy them here, not everyone does, but my daughter loves them, so it's been part of our Christmas dinner tradition since she was little.
Saint Nicolas is also a tradition in the Netherlands. The children put their shoes in front of the chimney. And on the 5th of december we celebrate with the sack of saint Nicolas. Also the children believe that saint nicolas still exists it's a lot like Santa Claus.
Our Christmas lasts until Jan 6 when we celebrate Epiphany or the Three King's Day. The night before, children fill up a shoe box with grass from the garden with a bowl of water for the camels, and a letter for the Three Kings with the list of toys or gifts you wish to receive.
I'm from South Africa, I've heard of Mopani worms but have never actually met anyone who eats it. People mostly have family lunches of roasted lamb or turkey. And Christmas fruit cake is a must
Spiced Ginger Beer is hands down the best flavour of bunderberg! We’re totally sold out here in NZ 😭 we wanted to stock up for the year but looks like everyone had the same idea...
In the Netherlands we celebrate on the 5th Dec. When kids get their presents. He usually arrives in November Then the kids set their shoe . It was so strange for my dutch family to except my Christmas birthday 🙄😜 they found it strange.day to have a birthday 🤷♀️. But my family back in uk sent present for Christmas to my kids hubby & me with birthday . Merry Christmas to you all have a wonderful time with Family 🎄 Wishing you All the very very best for 2021 🥂🍾 take care . Prodcast is Fantastic well done
Every year before opening presents we used to go to the local outdoor swimming pool to the Xmas day special opening for an ice dip! It was absolutely freezing but as I kid I always looked forward to it and then heading home after to open presents and eat lots of yummy food! MEGAN, GLOUCESTER, UK 🇬🇧
Please do a European Christmas Markets FTN Expedition in 2022! We live in Berlin and would love to join you! Also, Lapland and Santa's Village is our dream Christmas Vacation. It would be AMAZING to do the Expedition there. Please make it a family friendly trip as we would love to bring our baby (who was born 1 day before Hunter)
[Japanese Christmas] Yes, as you guys said, we buy KFC Party Barrel for Christmas. (It was not a tradition in my family though. My mom is a pescatarian) And we eat Christmas cake. Not only plain kind, there are tons of variety for the cake. KFC starts accepting orders at the beginning of November. From 23rd of December, KFC stores close and they just hand out these orders. I heard a third of KFC Japan's sales is during this time of the year. Family Mart (Japanese convenience stores) started promoting their Fami-ma Chicken (fried chicken) for Christmas, too. Also, In Japan, since Japan is a Buddhist majority country, Christmas doesn't have much religious meanings. It is a pure Hallmark-holiday type holiday. So many people spend time with their boyfriend/girlfriend, as you said. In the 90s, high end hotels in Tokyo used to be all booked up for the Christmas Eve for those who wanted to spend a romantic night with their partners. By the way, thank you a lot for your hard work to put out your fun videos! Especially this year, your videos brought me A LOT of SMILE and JOY. I hope you can visit Japan with Jess's family soon!🙏Someday, come visit my home town Fukui, Japan. Merry Christmas!🎄🎅🥳❤️
Little addition in the Netherlands and Belgium we also have saint nikolas (here it's called Sinterklaas) :) it's a bit different for us than in Germany though.
In Braga, Portugal, on every Christmas Eve thousands of people gather around the streets of the historic centre to drink Moscatel wine and eat a banana, it's called Bananeiro
I live in South Africa but my dad’s family is from Denmark so when we are with them we celebrate on the 24th so today(23rd) is my Christmas Eve (god julafrer). So we will celebrate all of our traditions on the 24th, some of our traditions are only opening out presents after dinner and we must dance all around the house to a song and we must sing Christmas carols. We have a traditional danish Christmas dinner which consists of duck, Caramelised potatoes, red cabbage and turkey with stuffing and gravy. I have more but I don’t feel like writing it all out but yip.
Happy Christmas!! I’ve never heard them called Bon bons before!! We just call them crackers in the uk 😂 love watching your podcast as much as your vlogs! Xx
from Germany: Yeah sounds right about St Nikolaus. But we got branches and coal for being bad, not just branches ^^ I`ve never only gotten that though. One year when I had cut all my dolls hair just before St Nikolaus. So I had one boot with branches and coal...the other with candy, nuts, clementines etc.
Yesterday I saw Bundaberg ginger beer for the first time in a local market, so I got a pack to try them out. It was delicious, I hope to see more flavors in the future! 😋 Bundaberg should totally sponsor you guys because you've inadvertently started a movement. 😂😂😂
I’m also South African (Afrikaans) we don’t eat Mopani worms (caterpillars) never had them also haven’t seen them at shops. We always have a family Braai on Christmas Day
In spain every region has their own traditions and a bit diferent of eachother, but the common festivities everyone celebrates are on the 24th(christmas eve dinner) the 25th is the christmas day lunch (some families nowadays we open santa claus or how we called him Papá Noel presents) and the most importNt the 6th january we have the 3 magic kings( los tres reyes magos) when we open presents!
Dec 5th st nicolad is as well for France northern East and northern west. You are getting candies (bergamotte from lalonde shop in Nancy) and special macarons from Nancy
Just to clarify about the spanish tradition! It's only done in Catalonia (Cataluña) so we don't really know a lot about it! for example, I'm from Madrid and my whole family is from Extremadura, so we've never had a poop log hahaha
South Africa has to many cultures to be specific to what we all do. There is eleven official languages and everyone has a different culture. My families tradutional is to open one gift on Christmas eve. The next morning we all would wake up and open gifts and then all the external family will come and we would open the gifts we got each other and have a massive lunch where you would be going to bed straight afterwards. 😂 I think South Africa is big on their food. There would be leftovers for the next week. 😂🤦♀️
On the eve of St. Nicholas' Day, children leave a shoe or a boot in front of the fireplace or the front door, hoping to wake up to it filled with gifts from Saint Nicholas. Not unlike the idea of Santa Claus leaving coal for naughty children, Saint Nicholas might leave a stick for misbehaving children. Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, is observed on 6 December or on 5 December in Western Christian countries, and on 19 December in Eastern Christian countries using the old church Calendar. This is a Christian people tradition. In Romania we celebrate him on dec. 6th, and birth of Jesus/Sana Claus ghifting on dec. 25
You wouldn't believe the luck that keywords have when you watch the podcast with the closed captions on... ruclips.net/video/uk-sWV47XGA/видео.html Here's a dating anniversary vlog of you two going to Rottnest Island. And why not check out Chleo on the fashion blog, voelfashion.blogspot.com/ The Parry-Valentine crew should go back on location to these spots, they are gorgeous!
In Slovakia and Czech republic we have also St. Nicolas day on 6.12. and also kids get gifts into their shoe. I think also Austria and Switzerland has the same tradition :) ( ◜‿◝ )♡ Btw whole europe as far as I know opens their gifts on 24th in the evening.
Saved this video for Christmas Eve here in the U.S. and it did not disappoint! Totally put me in the holiday spirit and I could not stop laughing at Jess's description of the "poop log" HA! Watching these podcasts always makes me feel like I'm hanging out with friends and I'm so glad you started it this year! Merry Christmas!!
Love both your RUclips channel and now this podcast addition. My kiddos have started watching with me, and my girls adore little Hunter! My New Year resolution is to get to take our four kids on adventures while we live here in Alaska (military). Top of the list is dog sledding, whale watching, and taking a glacier tour.
Hi Stephen and Jess and Chloe, thank you again for putting lots of smiles on my face. Talking about traditions was interesting for me this year as my husband died last month so this was our first Christmas without him so we kept some traditions the same and started some new ones but most of all made sure we made it about being with the ones you love. Love hearing and watching your stories. Can't wait to see Hunters first Christmas and more of the van! God bless
in Russia, we don't really celebrate Christmas (some of the families do but on the 6th and 7th of January). Instead, we celebrate the New Year. We sit with our families, eat dinner, drink champagne, and watch the countdown and different old soviet movies. Then some people like to set off fireworks and everyone watches it from the window. Presents are given to kids by Ded Moroz (grandad Frost in English) before or after midnight. And every family has its own traditions, different in every family. Loved the podcast!!
St Nick's day is the best. sometimes prefer it to Christmas. My mum is German and we are going to continue to do it for our babies too. So cute. Jess you should add it to your Christmas traditions :)
Santa would always give out the presents in our household too (they would have to wear the Santa hat) and it would take hours and hours for us to open them all but was such a nice way to do presents. We still do it as adults.
In Spain it is also celebrated on the 6th of January the visit of the 3 wise men who bring the presents to the kids. That same day is typical to eat “roscon de reyes” which is like a cake that has a small present or money inside. It is said that the one who gets the present has to paid the cake 😂. Love the podcast 💚💚
Would LOVE to go on a Christmas expedition like you said to a few European countries for the different Christmas markets!!! I want to do that already & would be awesome to do as an expedition with you all!!!
I absolutely looove watching this vlog again a year later! So much to cover! I would love to join you guys on a Christmas Market Expedition! I am SO there already in my mind!!! I also love that Hunter will get her Christmas card this year!
We have Ukrainian and UK traditions in our house on Christmas Eve! We take 2 - 3 days making everything as it is truly a labor of love - this consists of home made Potato Bread Rolls, Cinnamon rolls, Christmas butter cookies dipped in dark chocolate, Chocolate dipped gingerbread cookies, regular sugar cookies (these all have Ukrainian names which I won't confuse you too much with) then we make the savory things such as Borscht with a mushroom homemade type dumpling inside, Fish in the oven, Breaded Shrimp, Tarter sauce, Honey Barley and poppy seed salad and last but definitely not least two of our favorites - what you would know from Poland as Perogies - but these are pronounced much different in the Ukrainian language which are stuffed with a cheesy mashed potato and covered with scorched butter or sour cream on top! It is the most scared of recipes in our family and we absolutely love them! The second last thing was also a desert dumpling pronounced or called, "kinedly" which are the same kind of dumpling but have a sugar plum filling inside again with scorched butter on top - to die for!!!! ❤❤❤❤💖💖💖💖
We would not start to eat until the first star came out at night and if it was cloudy we would wait until it was dark.
Then after dinner we would open 1 present each on Christmas eve and then wait until early morning for the rest after Santa would come! :)
Hi. I am a 79 year old as of last Tuesday and I love your vlogs and Hunter must see more of her. May I wish you all a happy Christmas & better New Year. Lol Harry.
So here writing from Spain! Just to clarify a little bit more about the poop log situation: this poop log lives in the forest during the year and when Christmas season arrives it comes down the mountain and one day (beginning of December) it arrives at your door step; also there are families that go into the forest and search for him when this time of the year arrives. Actually, a lot of people in Spain don't know about this tradition because it's only celebrated in Catalonia, a region in the north of the peninsula. Maybe we'll sent you some videos on Christmas Eve :)
Thank you for uploading this! Spending Christmas Eve alone for the first time, this definitely helped and made me laugh. I'm Canadian and in my family we open Christmas presents like Jess's family. It does take hours!! lol
Also in Romania we celebrate St Nicolas on the 5th of December and we open the Christmas presents on the 25th on Christmas day morning.
We do that Saint Nicholas - gifts in boots tradition in Romania too 😊🎅 It’s sooo exciting to wake up and go look at your boots filled with candy. 🥰
Hi, Sint Nikolas is also a big tradition in the Netherlands. Here he is called Sinterklaas and his helpers are called Piet. It´s on the 5th of december and children put their shoes in front of the fireplace or next to the door. In the shoes are carrots for the horse of Sinterklaas. Sinterklaas and his Pieten come from Spain with a boat and he rides across the rooftops to put presents through the chimney. But secretly the parents take the carrots out and put presents and sweets (pepernoten) in. When the children didnt behave that year parents threaten that you don't get presents and that Piet can come with a bag and take you back to Spain. There's also another tradition where people draw numbers with a person's name on it and buy gifts for each other. The gifts are wrapped in a handcrafted piece, which is called a surprise. You also have to write a poem for the other person and you need to read the poem out loud. This is also done by adults.
Stories from Flying the Nest; They've gone around the world and now they've got a baby girl. Jess and Steve, Steve and Jess. Most wholesome channel? The answer is yes. A van in Australia, Window out of place, ginger beer for breakfast, it's never a dull day. Thank you for the joy, sweet and sincere. I can't wait to see, what you do for next year :) Merry Christmas from Hanna's Hiatus!
You're a poet if you didn't already know it!
@@carrieapparcel6956 thank you! I actually just posted a poem on my channel if you care to check it out :)
I get so excited when I see a Flying the Nest notification. Always such good videos and podcasts which feel so wholesome and positive. Merry Christmas to you all and a Happy New Year
I'm from Romania and we also have the St. Nicholas tradition! When we moved to the states we continued the tradition and carried it over. Planning on passing it on to my future kids too :) love you guys! thanks for the Christmas special!
So shocked when I heard my answer (Kasia from Poland)!
Such a fun podcast, love hearing more from my favorite travelers! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2021 🥳
Hi! I enjoyed watching your Christmas special episode on Christmas morning in front of my tree with a cup of tea :) Great way to start Christmas Day with some cheer and smiles
Thank you once again for a fabulous podcast, I was literally so excited that you read out what I said on the last podcast I took off my headphones and let my hubby listen hahaha thank you, guys :) Hope you all had a fabulous Christmas and let's hope the Coronavirus clears off so you can get travelling around the world again and we can join in with all your adventures. Oh and one of our odd Christmas traditions is we always have homemade mushy peas with our turkey dinner. xx
Hiii Stephen, Jess and Cleo! Love hearing your podcasts. Today I had to clean my messy wardrobe and hearing your podcast helped me enjoy the moment hahah. Greetings from Brazil!!
Do you all celebrate the 6th of January? We have a tradition in Belgium on 'driekoningen' so the three kings day (refers to the 3 wise men from the Bible who visit baby Jesus). On that day we eat a cake BUT in the cake there is a 'bean' hidden (this is often a small ornament) whoever finds the little bean in their piece of cake is 'king for the day' and gets to wear a crown 👑 (often that's delivered with the cake you get from the bakery)
In Mexico, we also eat a special cake called Rosca. There are a few dolls representing baby Jesus hidden inside the cake
(they are around 3-4 cm long). The people who get one baby Jesus have to buy tamales (a Mexican traditional food) on Feb. 2nd (I don’t know why in that specific day) for all the assistants to the gathering that took place on Jan. 6th, so it’s kind of a punishment 😂😂
So funny! In spain we also celebrate the 3 magic kings( Los tres reyes magos) on the 6 th january, that day we open presents and lunch with family. We also eat that cake called Roscón, and the person who finds the bean inside has to pay the cake😂
In Poland we also celebrate the 6th of January!
it’s just ticked over to christmas eve here in melbourne, and now i’m even more excited for christmas!! another wonderful podcast!
merry christmas stephen, jess, chleo and hunter!
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas 💙💙
That was fun!!! Great watch on Christmas Day 🎄
Such a fun podcast, always brings a smile and giggle to my day! 🎄Merry Christmas
Thank you for reading my question! :) I'm sad Hunter won't get her Christmas postcard this year, but glad that she will have something to look forward to next year. I love your podcast! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you!
Merry christmas flying the nest fam!!! Thank you for recognizing the unique culture of the philippines christmas. We do really have a lot of unique christmas traditions here! Hope you visit during christmas time!!!
Hi Stephen Jess and Cleo.
I'm a South African, regarding the Christmas tradition held here in S.A Mopani worms are a traditional dish for the African ppl. Its not popular amoungst the white ppl here.
Many family's here would eat a traditional Christmas fruit cake, which is famous in S.A. people would also drive around looking at the Christmas light at night or even go to the Botanical gardens / Melrose arch ect where the lights are set up there for families to enjoy. All depending on where in SA they live. We would also make either a big roast like a leg of lamb or also some finger snacks and have the family get together to open presents.
In Canada, bon bons are chocolates, and those things are called Christmas crackers. We do buy them here, not everyone does, but my daughter loves them, so it's been part of our Christmas dinner tradition since she was little.
Saint Nicolas is also a tradition in the Netherlands. The children put their shoes in front of the chimney. And on the 5th of december we celebrate with the sack of saint Nicolas. Also the children believe that saint nicolas still exists it's a lot like Santa Claus.
Happy holidays Stephen and Jessica what an amazing podcast ❤️
Our Christmas lasts until Jan 6 when we celebrate Epiphany or the Three King's Day. The night before, children fill up a shoe box with grass from the garden with a bowl of water for the camels, and a letter for the Three Kings with the list of toys or gifts you wish to receive.
I'm from South Africa, I've heard of Mopani worms but have never actually met anyone who eats it. People mostly have family lunches of roasted lamb or turkey. And Christmas fruit cake is a must
Merry Xmas 🎄 A question for Jess for next podcast - Do you miss teaching and if so what do you miss?
Happy New Year 🥳
Spiced Ginger Beer is hands down the best flavour of bunderberg! We’re totally sold out here in NZ 😭 we wanted to stock up for the year but looks like everyone had the same idea...
Just watched your podcast :-) I enjoyed it so much, thank you Sending love from Scotland Xxxx
Merry Christmas guys, have a lovely day and a happy new year xx
Happy Christmas Eve Everyone 🎉🎄
Btw, st Nicolas Day is also a thing in Poland, but on the 6th December.
In the Netherlands we celebrate on the 5th Dec. When kids get their presents. He usually arrives in November
Then the kids set their shoe .
It was so strange for my dutch family to except my Christmas birthday 🙄😜 they found it strange.day to have a birthday 🤷♀️.
But my family back in uk sent present for Christmas to my kids hubby & me with birthday .
Merry Christmas to you all have a wonderful time with Family 🎄 Wishing you All the very very best for 2021 🥂🍾 take care . Prodcast is Fantastic well done
The poop log is not really from Spain, but only from Catalonia/Catalunya.
Yay.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas Stephen, Jess and our Lovely Hunter.😍❤
Every year before opening presents we used to go to the local outdoor swimming pool to the Xmas day special opening for an ice dip! It was absolutely freezing but as I kid I always looked forward to it and then heading home after to open presents and eat lots of yummy food! MEGAN, GLOUCESTER, UK 🇬🇧
Please do a European Christmas Markets FTN Expedition in 2022! We live in Berlin and would love to join you! Also, Lapland and Santa's Village is our dream Christmas Vacation. It would be AMAZING to do the Expedition there. Please make it a family friendly trip as we would love to bring our baby (who was born 1 day before Hunter)
[Japanese Christmas] Yes, as you guys said, we buy KFC Party Barrel for Christmas. (It was not a tradition in my family though. My mom is a pescatarian) And we eat Christmas cake. Not only plain kind, there are tons of variety for the cake.
KFC starts accepting orders at the beginning of November. From 23rd of December, KFC stores close and they just hand out these orders. I heard a third of KFC Japan's sales is during this time of the year. Family Mart (Japanese convenience stores) started promoting their Fami-ma Chicken (fried chicken) for Christmas, too. Also, In Japan, since Japan is a Buddhist majority country, Christmas doesn't have much religious meanings. It is a pure Hallmark-holiday type holiday. So many people spend time with their boyfriend/girlfriend, as you said. In the 90s, high end hotels in Tokyo used to be all booked up for the Christmas Eve for those who wanted to spend a romantic night with their partners.
By the way, thank you a lot for your hard work to put out your fun videos! Especially this year, your videos brought me A LOT of SMILE and JOY. I hope you can visit Japan with Jess's family soon!🙏Someday, come visit my home town Fukui, Japan. Merry Christmas!🎄🎅🥳❤️
Little addition in the Netherlands and Belgium we also have saint nikolas (here it's called Sinterklaas) :) it's a bit different for us than in Germany though.
Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas
Saint Nicholas day exists in Romania too. I think a lot of European countries celebrate it.
In Braga, Portugal, on every Christmas Eve thousands of people gather around the streets of the historic centre to drink Moscatel wine and eat a banana, it's called Bananeiro
Merry Christmas! Love and hugs from a small youtuber in the UK ☃️🎄🥰❤️
I live in South Africa but my dad’s family is from Denmark so when we are with them we celebrate on the 24th so today(23rd) is my Christmas Eve (god julafrer). So we will celebrate all of our traditions on the 24th, some of our traditions are only opening out presents after dinner and we must dance all around the house to a song and we must sing Christmas carols. We have a traditional danish Christmas dinner which consists of duck, Caramelised potatoes, red cabbage and turkey with stuffing and gravy. I have more but I don’t feel like writing it all out but yip.
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Happy Christmas!! I’ve never heard them called Bon bons before!! We just call them crackers in the uk 😂 love watching your podcast as much as your vlogs! Xx
from Germany: Yeah sounds right about St Nikolaus. But we got branches and coal for being bad, not just branches ^^ I`ve never only gotten that though. One year when I had cut all my dolls hair just before St Nikolaus. So I had one boot with branches and coal...the other with candy, nuts, clementines etc.
Hiii! We do Christmas dinner and presents on the 24th, hope you have a lovely holiday xxx
Yesterday I saw Bundaberg ginger beer for the first time in a local market, so I got a pack to try them out. It was delicious, I hope to see more flavors in the future! 😋 Bundaberg should totally sponsor you guys because you've inadvertently started a movement. 😂😂😂
I’m also South African (Afrikaans) we don’t eat Mopani worms (caterpillars) never had them also haven’t seen them at shops. We always have a family Braai on Christmas Day
In spain every region has their own traditions and a bit diferent of eachother, but the common festivities everyone celebrates are on the 24th(christmas eve dinner) the 25th is the christmas day lunch (some families nowadays we open santa claus or how we called him Papá Noel presents) and the most importNt the 6th january we have the 3 magic kings( los tres reyes magos) when we open presents!
Dec 5th st nicolad is as well for France northern East and northern west. You are getting candies (bergamotte from lalonde shop in Nancy) and special macarons from Nancy
Saint Nicholas Day in Germany is actually celebrated on the 6th ;-) but I was happy to hear you picked a German tradition :)
I can't believe I was mentioned in this podcast! :D
I really feel like you need a theme song for drink time lol
Just to clarify about the spanish tradition! It's only done in Catalonia (Cataluña) so we don't really know a lot about it! for example, I'm from Madrid and my whole family is from Extremadura, so we've never had a poop log hahaha
We also celebrate Saint Nicolas in Belgium!
Merry Christmas:) xo
South Africa has to many cultures to be specific to what we all do. There is eleven official languages and everyone has a different culture.
My families tradutional is to open one gift on Christmas eve. The next morning we all would wake up and open gifts and then all the external family will come and we would open the gifts we got each other and have a massive lunch where you would be going to bed straight afterwards. 😂 I think South Africa is big on their food. There would be leftovers for the next week. 😂🤦♀️
we still do the big toy sales in july at big w and stuff!
On the eve of St. Nicholas' Day, children leave a shoe or a boot in front of the fireplace or the front door, hoping to wake up to it filled with gifts from Saint Nicholas. Not unlike the idea of Santa Claus leaving coal for naughty children, Saint Nicholas might leave a stick for misbehaving children.
Saint Nicholas Day, also called the Feast of Saint Nicholas, is observed on 6 December or on 5 December in Western Christian countries, and on 19 December in Eastern Christian countries using the old church Calendar. This is a Christian people tradition. In Romania we celebrate him on dec. 6th, and birth of Jesus/Sana Claus ghifting on dec. 25
Love the miley refrence 🤣🤣🤣
Guys you need to remake introduction song and add Cleo, I mean like: A little podcast by Stephen and Jess and Cleo :D
Saint Nicolas is Santa Claus
Just wondering where you getting the drinks from woothworth only had a couple of brands thanks
We get them from Cole’s 💙
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Hi Debbi!!
@@storiesfromflyingthenest4641 hello from me in England xx
@Stories from Flying the Nest can i visit your house during Christmas?
France Provence on Xmas day, we are eating the 13 desserts. 😋😋😋🐯
When you were in Brussels you visited Saint Nicolas!
Mopane worms teste like dried beef (biltong). It is a special thing to eat, but not sure about the Christmas tradition.
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Nectarine be If not mistaken
Combination of orange and lemon
I eat frozen fruit mince pies too! I thought I was the only one, must be an Aussie thing?
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In Slovakia and Czech republic we have also St. Nicolas day on 6.12. and also kids get gifts into their shoe. I think also Austria and Switzerland has the same tradition :) ( ◜‿◝ )♡ Btw whole europe as far as I know opens their gifts on 24th in the evening.
In Romania we get also sweets (if you are good kid) or a stick (if you are a bad kid) on dec. 6th on ST. NICOLAE in you cleand and pollished shoes
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Never heard or done the worm tradition for Christmas 😂🇿🇦
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It’s not a secret Santa if you know who got your gift!