🎄No-Gifts Holidays 🎁 Bookstore in Romania 🍵 Advent Tea
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- ⛄️December episode No. 1 from Romania. Join me on a walk and a short bookstore tour, tea tasting and chatting about no-gifts holidays and other things😊✨ Unique weekly videos on Patreon: / anagoldberg
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Chapters
00:00 We decided to Christmas without gifts
03:13 A walk with Brian
04:33 Romanian bookstore
05:56 Chat about advents and tea
Thank you Ana! For the 7 years of our marriage my husband and I wrote each other a love letter for birthdays and Christmas, our gift to each other ... as we opened them together our love expanded ... my husband has passed away and the love remains :) Blessings on you both this Christmastime and always X0 X0
What a wonderful, loving tradition you had, dear Bonnie ❤️ Thank you so much for sharing your story. Indeed, love always remains. Sending warm hugs, my friend 🤗
Such a sweet and beautiful gift you gave each other!
That's beautiful ❤️
There are so many great, simple things and experiences to enjoy during the holidays. Honestly, we have complicated everything with the excessive gift giving that we don't slow down to enjoy the beauty of the season.
3:20 Nice to finally see Brian 😉
ah, seeing you out and about with your adorable red winter hat just makes me smile Ana. You and Brian always convey a warm, gentle, and hopeful way of living. Maybe humanity will somehow survive through all this madness. You guys can show us the way!
For many years I've always avoided all the craziness of the holiday season and use the time to enjoy solitude and quiet. I used to get lonely but as I've aged I've come to enjoy my own company very much. I am grateful for what I have.
Ted, you are so sweet, thank you!
An advent tea calendar sounds wonderful. A gift everyday with no clutter. This holiday is bittersweet because my mom passed away shortly before American Thanksgiving.
I'm so sorry for your loss, dear Sharon ❤️ Sending love and support to you.
I find such peace watching your videos and to see more of them is such a treat. Thank you ❤️
Thanks for video
We started today celebrate Hanukkah -first candle
Prepping latkes
And gifts for friends
This year gift is home made mushrooms
We collected them today in woods, the season started 2 weeks ago ago
Happy Hanukkah, my friend! Homemade mushrooms sounds like a wonderful gift ❤️
I celebrate Christmas & Three Kings day. The memories you Shaw together are the best gifts you can give each other. Peace
I think that is the perfect idea! I know when my family was struggling financially (badly) we were lucky enough to only buy a package of hot dogs for $1 after our bills were paid and that was because my husband and I picked up recyclable ♻️ cans in the snow. You do not know how good those hot dogs tasted after a hard day of collecting cans in snow. In my opinion in these tough times you have to do whatever it takes to get buy. THERE IS NO SHAME IN THAT!👍 work is work there are days that I am so happy that people who have the money drink soda and booze.
What a lovely surprise to see this this morning. Thank you for filming it.
Thank you for being here, Christine 🌷
When I was a child in the UK in the 60s, advent calendars had only little pictures beind the doors!
Nowadays, only the children in the family are given presents, but we make donations to charities that help homeless people to have a nice Christmas and help to improve tgeir lives.
Advent tea, what a great idea!❤
I was amazed when I saw it as I have exactly the same !! Funny
I saw a quote the other day that said “According to my Advent Calendar, there are only three days until Christmas!” So, I had to laugh when you said that you ate all the chocolates in your calendar. We are cutting back on Christmas this year also. We don’t need anything. I would rather have a nice meal and relax. 🎄❄️🍾🥂
Ruthann, hahaha, I laughed out loud to the quote 😄 A nice meal and relaxing time together sounds the best. ❤️
I love everything you say, Ana. it is like a warm hug to my heart and mind. I was worried I didn't have enough money to buy Christmas presents for my kids and family, but I suddenly realized that it was the others' pressure and bragging about the wonderful things they already got. Cheers from Mexico.
Dear Magali, your kids and your family have the best thing you can give them - your love to them! Warm hugs to Mexico 🤗
I have the same Advent Tea❤ so nr7 is LOVE ME TRULY ORGANIC CHAI SPICE TEA WITH CINNAMON, GINGER & CLOVE. Is true, sometimes they're not as good as you'd like. This year I discovered a special version of "winter tea": 2 liters of water, 2 whole oranges sliced, 1 lemon sliced, a lot of ginger cleaned and cut into small slices, to boil for 10 minutes. Then add 2 black tea bags and steep for 5 minutes, sugar and honey to taste. I like it very much hot and cold.
I add 2 spoons of honey and 2 tablespoons of brown sugar.
Thank you for the recipe, Ela! I will give it a try ❤️
Hi Anna, no gift buying this year seems an eminently sensible idea for you and Brian. I agree that it doesn't mean you won't be able to have a festive holiday. My husband doesn't come from a gift buying culture or one of celebrating the holidays in a big way. I do but have scaled back every year for several years now. I buy few gifts and many of them are hand made. If I give someone a gift it is usually a small one and something they can use and not add to clutter. Wishing you and Brian a beautiful holiday. 🎄🎄🎄
It is lovely to hear about how you celebrate your traditions with your differences from childhood. I am a firm believer in making new traditions as a new couple. Growing together.
I love this concept of growing together a lot! Thank you, Kami 🤗
This year my spouse and I are only gifting each other books and chocolates. I read online that there is a tradition somewhere (maybe in Finland) to do that on Christmas Eve and spend the evening reading and eating chocolates and I can’t imagine something more pleasant
I love this, Ana. It feels like visiting over tea with a friend. Have a wonderful holiday season! ❤️
Oh, thank you Beth! You too, have a beautiful festive time ❤️
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We get to catch a glimpse of the elusive Brian! The man behind the scenes. I love this format Ana...thank you for giving us a more intimate minute with you during the season.. I love your enthusiasm and the way you two found a sweet spot for celebrating winter holidays. 💖🎅🏽🎄❄
What a nice video !! It's amazing I bought exactly the same tea calendar but in Swiss ! And When I saw it on the video I stopped and made the same tea. There was other fancy tea caöendar but they had much more cardboard and where more expensive. My first advent calendar was also a chocolate one with cardboard all around. It represented a house with 24 windows. It was milk chocolate that I don't like much and had nearly no taste but I was happy to get one each day. They had Xmas shape like snowman, Xmas tree, present... This is what we can offer one another for Xmas not a present but THE present being there together sharing a moment tant we'll remember. I started making presents of present a long time ago... Time put in making and writting a card, 2 tickets entrance to the SPA to go with my sister, a bag of home made biscuits de la joie... One year I gave my mom some if my time... I put a hundred little papers in a jar with chores for me to make (on top of chores I was already doing) I choose to give her time for her. I'll have very few gifts this year but the present of my long distance BF coming to visit me. I bought him a game that I know we'll play together a lot aswe both like playing a lot. I asked him for a box of chocolate... To match my gift to him. We'll share our mutual presents and for sure a wonderfull moment. I dream of that moment each day and it'll be a wonderfull memory. I will make myself a present too as I do for each Xmas and birthday as I have almost no more ascendants ! One day trip to an unknown city...
Beautiful vlog ❤ today is the first day of Hanukkah 🕎 wishing you both a lovely festive time together ❤
Happy Hanukkah, dear Sharon! ❤️
Hello Brian! 3:40
This video is a lovely surprise. We have the Cupper advent tea calender as well, it's such a cute idea. I don't buy them for myself as I only drink roibush tea, but it makes a nice gift for others. I like December, it's the time to get warm and cosy and I'm off from work this week 😊. Hope you stay safe dear Ana 🙏
Oh, it's so nice to be off work and enjoy December coziness 🥰 I haven't had Cupper tea before, but here in Romania I discovered this brand and now am a true fan 😊 They have white tea with raspberry and it's gorgeous. I have to see whether they have some roibush variants! Sending love, dear Anita ❤️
@@anagoldberg Thank you for your lovely reply 💓. We have all sorts of Cupper tea. Yes having off once in a while is nice, I'm so grateful. Sending you warm hugs ❤️
I never saw advent Tea before, that is just great! I enjoyed the tour of the bookstore and all the lovely decorations vendors made for the holidays. Great video Ana!
Enjoy your tea! True, some days are better than others. I enjoyed the outing you shared while drinking tea . Very relaxing.
I like the idea of tea advent calendar. I will use the teas I have around here. It will use up the bits and bobs. The next few days will be Candy Cane Lane. ❤️Anne
Anne, this is a super cool idea - to create your own advent using the teas you already have 🥰 Love it!
Love this video. Very comforting for my heart and soul on a cold day. Love 💗 only love 💗
I'm so glad the video brought you some coziness, dear Maria ❤️
Thank you that was lovely! Would enjoy seeing you more often.
I think advent calenders is a Scandinavian tradition. It has been nice to see it spread more internationally in the last decade or so.
That is also how my December starts: Putting up my son's advent calender, which is an embroidered wall hanging with 24 loops for presents. I usually put candy or a message about what we will do that day.
We also have an advent calender with the numbers 1-24 that we light energy morning while we eat breakfast.
Oh, your advents sound so lovely, cozy and fun! ❤️🤗
Adventuring around the historic streets of Arad and poking around Christmassy shops without spending a bunch of money actually sounds like a lovely way to spend the holidays. So glad you and your husband get to spend this time together!
Wow, we get a glimpse of the elusive Brian! Lovely.
we had advent calendars with just pictures and we loved them, this chocolate thing is all new!
I love this type of video where you share how you make everyday decisions so deliberately. I feel that I live deliberately only on some weekends and on vacation but otherwise my days are nondescript because I don’t curate them - one day just folds into another with no distinction. You’re very inspiring, Ana!
What a great video. You are so logical and down to earth. I learn a lot from you. Thank you ❤
I had the Same Calender last year- too many herbs for me as well 😅
Bonus video!! And here you said you weren't giving gifts. 😊
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What a treat. You two gave us a suprise (extra nice video) present Ana!! And to see Brian! 👋🙂 I can understand & empathize not doing gifts.
2) i often think one's time is more than any item and am trying to focus on that this season. And the experience/s. Wish good travels and all. Cute tea idea cheers❤❤
I never knew about Advent Calendars until very recent, AND still haven't purchased one, so many out there, and so many ridiculously priced. Maybe a Lego calender hahahaha, if they made such a thing.
Always my best and human warmth to you and Brian.
Oh, a Lego advent could be such an awesome idea! 😊 Sending warm hugs to you, my friend.
There are many Lego Advent calendars!! They are in all our stores here in Switzerland...
Lovely video surprise on a Thursday.
I've had several tea advent calendars over the years, as they're quite popular here. Last year I had the brand you have and was a bit disappointed, as very few tasted good to me. I had another that was a bit better the year before, and this year I have a Moomin tea calendar and so far, it's been the best I've had! I think maybe next year I'll put one together of my own (and some to gift...).
As we've got older, gift-giving has become less important. These days I usually knit something for my closest family and maybe add something small - right now I'm knitting some warm tweed socks for one of my sons-in-law and will push a good salami into them for gifting, as I know he'll enjoy it with a nice glass of wine (maybe we'll consume that as a family, maybe not...!). My eldest daughter's socks will have a narrow pack of coloured pencils I think she'll like using. Just examples of what we enjoy doing for each other. Much more important is the coming together of the family, as we are 4 generations and despite a few introverts, it's good fun to spend time enjoying the season, especially now we have my mom so close by. I think the gifts are most important for the school age children, but we do only give one each, as it can get out of hand! The younger children are also happy with homemade trinkets, they are already in awe of our low-key seasonal decorations...
Moomin tea calendar is a dream!
What a lovely idea, dear Ana❤ I was so happy to see you made a cozy, christmassy, chatty video for us 🥰. It feels like being with a friend and enjoying some advent time and thougts together 🕯🫖thank you for this nice surprise🙏
See you next sunday and whatever other day you like 😊
Sendung hugs to you, Corinna
Aww, I'm so glad you enjoyed the video, Corinna! 🤗Sending love ❤️
An extra video from Ana is always good! ❤ Love the advent tea.
I love your sweet little trees and snowflakes! They are so beautiful! I think you are wise.....focusing on other aspects of the holidays. Loved your video of you and your husband taking in the many beautiful sights and atmosphere of your city.
I like all your videos Ana. Nice to see Brian, he looks like a nice guy. I guess he must be if you’re with him. I’m so happy for both of you. Your words about celebrating the festive season made me think of the Beatles song “all you need is love” “love is all you need”! Take care, lovely Ana.❤️🌹
Nice to see you happy, nice to see your husband once in a while, I love to see Romania....
Hi Ana, I like the tea wisdom you shared :) Glad you are enjoying your Adventskalender. My (now grown up) son gave me a tea Adventkalender this year :) so nice.
I bought cupper tea once and wasn't convinced by the taste but it was just one type of tea. I recommend Sonnentor, an Austrian company that makes delicious tea blends, herbs and spices. My tea Adventkalender is from that brand :) Thank you for your calming videos Ana and I wish you and Brian a lovely festive time :) cheers
Oh, I will look for Sonnentor tea! Very excited to try now 😊Thank you for your kind words! 🤗
I so much like Sonnentor ! I bought some boxes while in Germany this summer. I hope one day I'll get a Sonnentor Adventkalendar !!
Fun to try different teas definitely
Привет, Ана! I love your tea metaphor in the end, it's such a beautiful way of thinking about life and makes the not-so-tasty days easier to swallow ☺️☕💚
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❤Thank you , Ana, your video was like a gift.
Oh Ana I enjoyed so much this cosy video of yours and it put a big smile on my face when you've talked about tea calendar ! Last year my Chum, Antoine, gifted me the same Advent calendar as yours !! And this year, it's my Mum who has gifted me a tea Advent calendar from another brand... I'm so happy because the herbal teas are delicious but beyond that the calendar is gorgeous 🤩 Like you and Brian, Antoine and I don't exchange material gifts this year (as it was the case last year) but we finaly plan to gift us a 3 days trip in London in march or april (it's a very long want because we spoke about it since we've been together, 12 years and a half ago 😅) Thanks a lot dearest Ana, your sharings are such a treat ! Warm thoughts and hugs for you ❤️🤍❤️
Dearest Violaine, reading you I couldn't stop smiling too 🥰 Yay to tea advent calendars! And your planned trip sounds just a fantastic gift to each other ❤️ Sending love, my friend 🌷
Sending love back to you dear friend 😊🫖
Enjoy your tea and the cozy holiday season! ❤
Always lovely to see you Ana! I love the idea of a tea advent calendar - I must remember this for next year.
I just adore bookshops - such a special atmosphere! Thank you for sharing yours with us! Merry Christmas Ana and Brian from Northern Ireland! xx
Thank you, Fiona! Sending kind wishes to Northern Ireland ❤️
Loved this video! Thanks for sharing your special day, think I'll make a cup of tea ❤
Hi Ana, thank you for your video❤we are also concentrating on making delish food and biscuits this year. I love looking at all the Chritmas things in the shops. The only gift we are giving each other is a book each. Looking forward to some of your festive traditional recipes, vegan of course. I remember your Russian salad which you made one year and posted . Maybe also a traditional recipe Brian likes . Big hug Gale x
I love the idea of gifting only a book each. I have a plan of making at least recipe video in December 😉
Thanks for the relaxing vlog.
Great video Ana. Have a great day
Thanks Liam, you too
I have the same Tea Advent Calender 🥰🌈 here in Germany they are available from all the differentbrands. So next year I will try another brand. The cool thing is also that they're putting their normal selled teas inside the calendars so you get one bag of each tea the brand has to offer and you can choose to buy a whole package of a tea or not ;)
Omg! That locomotive is an old type that was made in my hometown (Reșița). You can see them in other romanian cities too.
Hope my country treated you and your husband well! 🙏 ❤
I want to add something: we are also Orthodox, but we celebrate Christmas on the 25th of Dec. Greeks as well, Orthodox but celebrate it on December. I think Eritreans as well, but not sure about it
But Easter we celebrate like the rest of the Orthodox communities
"Paka-paka" could be the root of ,,pa"/ ,,pa-pa" in Romanian 😊 we have some Slavic words ourselves, you could have given that label a try as a fun experimental game 😊
Your first experience with Advent calendars was exactly the same as mine! 😂
Here in Croatia, Christmas holidays are becoming more and more westernized/americanized each year; it's sad to see our traditional ways of celebrating being replaced with this completely foreign and consumerism-centered parade (sorry for being so negative 😅) My family and I like to keep things really simple and cozy - our decorations are minimal but cute, we make our Advent wreaths using materials we find in the nature, we bake cakes, make mulled wine... The most important thing is that we're together and in good health, presents don't matter much to us, but if we do buy gifts, they're usually in the form of books, tea or chocolate 🙂
With all that being said, I wish you and Brian a happy, healthy, warm and cozy holiday season! ✨
Books, tea, and chocolate - what a cozy set of gifts! Thank you for your kind wishes and for sharing your festive traditions, my friend. Love to Croatia 🤗
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This was lovely 💕Thank you.
The advent tea looks lovely. I also got a holiday tea set for myself as a gift 🎁 and there are some bookstores in Romania I liked called Cărturești
Hi Ana, It has been some time since I commented on a video, just busy. I do like your "no gift Christmas". At a certain point in our lives, we really have everything we might want or need, and giving/receiving presents that only add more stuff to the walls or book cases, does not really serve. My partner and I have been together 13 years now, and it seems that each year we scale down our gift giving a bit more. This is a wonderful season of the year and there are so many things to enjoy about the festivities going on from various faith traditions, that the historic and hectic commercialism of Christmas just seems to get in the way of the wonder and joy of the season. Seasons Greetings and all the best to you and Brian. Peace.
Hi Willowbei, thank you for sharing your experience 🌿 Best wishes to you!
Romania is such a pretty country 🥰
I love the tea advent calendar, it's super cute! I wanted to do something like that this year but with the business of Thanksgiving, didn't have time to find one.
Tea advents are awesome! I hope youll find one next year ❤️
I enjoy your vlog christmas! 🧡🧡🧡 Stay safe and enjoy the holidays. Regards from Spain!
Always love your videos Ana also was lovely to catch a glimpse of Brian ❤
Hi Ana, Love Me Truly is actually a "chai", so you can make it with hot milk and sugar and this way it 's even tastier! From this brand I only buy this one, because I love it so much. I prepare it with oat milk and some cane sugar.
I so enjoyed this video. I had another idea about your metaphor at the end, related to my own experience of drinking herbal teas that are very healthy, but not necessarily delicious: just because something doesn’t feel enjoyable at the time, does not mean it is not doing you good in the long term. Obviously this doesn’t apply to everything, but for me it does apply to things like working hard on an assignment, or exercising particularly vigorously sometimes ahaha.
I love this metaphor, Etta! 🤗
Wishing you a happy December Anna. I have the same advent tea!! ❤
Aww, so cool to know we have the same advent! Thank you and wishing you a wonderful December too ❤️
How nice. Hope you're enjoying my country 🥰
A beautiful video Ana! I'm in Australia,so it's Summer now...we usually have a swim at the beach after Christmas lunch!😊
What a cozy little video ❤
That is an adorable idea with the Advent Teas. I am going to make a homemade version for next Christmas 🎄😊 Happy holidays to you and Brian.☃️❄️
yes, great idea!
Hi Ana,
I am a Romanian subscriber. If you ever need help with translating anything while you are in Romania, or if Brian needs any help translating things related to his family's history, feel free to contact me.
Best wishes to you and Happy Holidays!
P.S. I really enjoy your videos 😸
Hi Cristina! Thank you for being so kind 🤗 Wishing you happy holidays too!
Lovely video, thank you for sharing.
You’re videos are always just so relaxing and comforting 🤗Thank you 💕💕
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Lovely video Ana♥ ~a grandma watching from Norfolk, Virginia~
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i had that tea advent calendar, it's good but try to make a note of which ones you like eg with a biro on the box, i am afraid i forgot them all by the end! Might have to buy one again :)
There is a very nice place called Posticum in Oradea. If your soul longs for some silence and good people, it worth to check the programme there. :)
Thank you for the suggestion, Dina!
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Hi Ana your channel just popped up and it looked interesting, rather you looked interesting, and I was not disappointed. It's the kind of calming and relaxing things I like to watch I'm very much a tea drinker and love reading and books and other cultures. I'll tell ya I tried roobios tea one time and hated it. LOL Im looking forward to seeing more of your vlogs and am subscribing to your channel! Merry Christmas to you and yours! Hugs from Mary Ann in Wilmington, Delaware USA. 🤗🫖🌲
Hello Mary Ann! I'm so glad to meet you here 😊Thank you for watching! Sending warm hugs to Wilmington 🤗
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I am not exchanging gifts with anyone this year. I already don't have money to go from week to week. And I work full time. The US is completely ridiculous. Of course, Christmas isn't only about gifts. It's nice to know I'm not the only one not gifting, though I'm sad about it.
candles. All the atmosphere, none of the expense - how the Germans do it, they celebrate "Advent" the season, not full focus on one present-giving day, which ruins it. Christmas films are good too
but for me, they give out free book catalogues with excerpts in the bookshop and it's free and then i read it and i have to have so many books.....
Hi. I really enjoy watching your videos. Would you be happy to do a vlog or a food haul/cooking video once in a while?
Thank you for watching, Patricia! I hope I will make a cooking video soon 😊
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Hello Ana. I really enjoy your video. I am also doing a tea advent calendar, isn't the best ideia ever? 🤗
Alexandra, it is! 🤗
Advent calendars are not even a thing in all of Europe, in the UK and Ireland, they have only started showing up a few years ago and I yet have to see them in Spain, Portugal and Italy, as well.
I'm from Romania. Baia Mare. Did you visit there?
Unfortunately, we didn't have a time to visit there. Hopefully, one day 😊
Ana, why didn't you use Google Lens on the box of tea?
The Romanian translation didn't have the actual names of the teas and their numbers, so I needed the original :)
are you doing Vlogmas?
Stopping a video at a random moment in time can yield interesting results ; in the photo I shot, there was a fine mesh (screen technology) superimposed on your face bearing an unfamiliar expression. Strange and non-reproducible, truly random, partly since I did not capture youtube's screen bottom line, partly because I am not able to view your vlog in slow motion anyway ...
Nice vlog today, thanks, precious Ana... and have a good year's end time.
Thank you, Roger 🌿