It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! Strolling around city's Christmas markets sipping Glühwein, enjoying the night with some classic seasonal films, watching the first snow to fall, decorating the tree with carols playing in the background, spending quality time with your family and friends, putting up lights all over the place, or just smelling the food from the kitchen...
Christmas means all that and much more, and very different things to different people. Since we all have our own distinctive Holiday traditions, here's in pictures what makes it special to us.
Let's start with our first Christmas at our new place. We really love having friends over and particularly gathering for pre-Christmas parties. Usually I can barely wait to set up the ambiance with beautiful decorations, lights, and scents. Living in France is amazing, but to have some home to our home, we usually have a trip to Ikea for a huge box of gingerbread and special Scandinavian mulled wine. That, plus the tree, and we're usually pretty set for the holiday season.
The city of lights gets a whole new meaning around Holiday season, and it's hard to escape the tones of carols.
A few of my favourite things about Finnish Christmas: Candles, looooots of candles!
CHRISTMAS EVE
24th is the day people celebrate Christmas with lots of different traditions throughout the day.
FOODS
After dinner comes the part of the night people wait impatiently- hanging out the gifts. Nothing beats the feeling of giving (and let's be honest here, it's pretty fun to receive them, too) ;).
A NIGHT WALK
MIDNIGHT SAUNA
ENJOYING SNOWY NATURE
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