You can have a great time in London by yourself. And Christmas time doesn’t have to be an exception. Digital festival: 24-25-26 December. Insta : @takeyourlonelyselfto. FB: orphan’s Christmas in the City
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This is the end of Orphan’s Christmas In The City. I hope you have enjoyed my company in these last 3 days, and wish you a wonderful rest of the holidays !
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JOMO. This word might just give a name to your feelings
JOMO
what on earth is it?
Psychology Today defines JOMO as “the emotionally intelligent antidote to FOMO(the Fear Of Missing Out)”. Can you really embrace the simplicity of the present moment discarding the pressure to live that Instagram-worthy #bestlife? Could a cosy night in, a warm cup of tea and a book actually bring more joy than that super fun part that all of your friends seem to be going to this Friday?
Have you ever felt that slight sense of contempt behind the annnoyance when your plans get cancelled last minute? NO? Is it just me? Oh, alright then...
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9 Reasons to Spend Time With Yourself
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I promised, and I delievered. Here it is your last Orphan in the City Playlist, for solitary walks around London all year round
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26.12.2018 - Welcome to DAY #3
Welcome to the third and last day of the Orphan’s Christmas In The City festival.
It’s Boxing day. I hope that, wherever you were and whomever with, you managed to have a merry Christmas day yesterday, and that you enjoyed reading about Christmas traditions. With Christmas day already behind our backs, I hope that part of the dread around feeling lonely during the holidays subsided.
However, you might still have some holiday time to spend alone in London. Now that we have acknowledged this sense of discomfort that often comes with being alone, it is still worth about solitude and loneliness.
Today’s posts aim to take away the stigma that exists around aloneness and demonstrate that, however daunting it might seem, time spent by yourself is extremely valuable. To do so I am going to hand over the baton and link videos and articles from around the web that, talking about it might make you reconsider those “bitter lonely days”.
Of course, I am not forgetting your daily music playlist.
Hold on until the next post at 10am for the release of the third and last playlist made for you to accompany your third and last day of the Orphan’s Christmas Digital Festival. Thank you for following this project until now. If you have enjoyed it I would really appreciate a thumbs-up, and let me know what you think in the comments!
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Arson as a Christmas Tradition: The Gävle Goat
Oh Swedes...
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Good Mythical Morning video on Chirstmas traditions
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Nors, do you really hide your brooms to protect yourselves from evil spirits on Christmas?
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New years eve traditions around the world
Can you confirm these are true? If so
Which NYE tradition from around the world would you want to adopt this new year?
I can say that, as an Italian, I have never been gifted red underwear for the new year... but I can confirm the part about eating lentils and Zampone (made from pig trotter) at midnight is true!
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Do Catalans actually dress logs, feed them , then beat them with sticks until they poop out candies...then eat them??
Cataluña, I am confused, and I kind of love it at the same time!
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Christmas monsters: Autrsian Krampus
Check out this article, And be thankful if your childhood Christmases didn’t involve Krampus.
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Let’s set the record straight about the BEFANA.(Or Italian Christmas in the 21st Century)
the origins of this traditional character of the Italian folklore are intertwined in both paganism and the religious episode of the three wise men.
La Befana is an old lady resembling a witch that comes about on January 6th (Epifania day) to fill empty stockings, left by children by the chimney, with sweets and treats if they’ve been nice, and coal (yes, coal) If They have been naughty. But let’s set the records straight:
She is not Santa’s wife. La Befana is an independent single old woman loved by everyone because, let's be honest, she mainly brings candies, nobody has received coal since the 70s.
Also,She is not a substitute for Santa. Many articles, such like this one seem to believe Father Christmas Do you really think Italian children would just do with a handful of candies (if they are lucky) once a year? We stole Halloween for that! We do wait for Santa to satisfy our premature materialist thirst on the 25th of December. La Befana is the loveliest addition to stretch the celebrations until the first week of December. Although, she leaves leaving the annual amount of bitterness in our hearts, as, as for tradition, “L’ Epifania tutte le feste porta via” [“epiphany (day) all the festivities takes away”, it rhymes in Italian], which means that the 6th of January is the day set to bring the long Christmassy celebrations to a close.
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Weird Christmas Traditions From around the world. I need your help for this one.
Okay, I read blogs, posts, articles and watched videos talking about odd Christmas traditions from different countries around the world. My problem is that I don’t think I can trust any of them blindly and wholeheartedly.Why, I hear you ask?Well, I am Italian, and of all the articles, and perhaps only in one or two of those I could a relatively accurate accounts, which I could actually relate to my festive traditions from back home. the rest is full of misconceptions or and wrong stereotypes on how we Italians celebrate the holidays, which I had never even heard about. How could I then trust what they said about the other countries?
Here is why I need your help.
I am going to link videos and articles which gather all the strangest - and most interesting - Ways of celebrating the festive holidays from around the world. [Some do sound really curious and made me wanna try to recreate them, maybe they will have the same effect on you (?)]
However, If you notice that some of these are speaking Humbug about your country’s traditions I urge you to comment and let us know the truth, or at least an expert’s version of it.
stay tuned for the next post at 11am, as I will do my part and set the record straight regarding the Italian
Befana
, witch-like old lady that comes to bring candies (or carbon) on the 6th January
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And so IT IS Christmas...
And today we can allow ourselves to feel a little nostalgic thinking about our childhood Christmases. But we will also go beyond that.
Today’s posts will have the theme of holiday traditions from around the world. one of the bonuses of not being forced to follow your family’s Christmas tradition is that you are able to try out new ones from different cultures than yours and even make your own. And isn’t London culture pot just exceptional for this?
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