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advent market at our townhall square in Vienna

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I made this picture on Christmas Eve. You can see our christmas tree with the presents. I hope you all enjoyed Christmas!

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This is our crib. In Austria most families have them, for example under the christmas tree.

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In Portugal we usually spend the Christmas with our family as it happens all around the world, I suppose. However, in Portugal we have some particular traditions, for example: most families eat codfish with potatoes, egg and some vegetables but it is not a rule, there are many families that prefer pork, lamb or even roasted turkey that usually is eaten in the US, Samuel Peralta.

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In some villages families usually light a stump to warm up Jesus Chirst and all the family sits around it and chats while they are drinking  Porto Wine or any other typical Portugues liquors. Ana Rita

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Thanks for the recipe. I love baking "Plätzchen". I´ll try the crescents too. What about the vanilla, don´t we add some vanilla sugar ?

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Hello, here in Austria we like to bake biscuits during the advent period, so I decided to give you a recipe. My grandmother made me some Vanilla Crescents, whose are very typical for Austria :-) I highly recommend you to bake some, because they were quite tasty! Kind regards, Stephanie

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In Austria on Dec 6 NIKOLAUS comes and brings apples, peanuts, chocolate and small presents – but only to good children.

If kids (or adults) were naughty the companion of Nikolaus, called ‘KRAMPUS’, visits them. He takes a ‘Rute’- a big tree branch – with him. But this is an old custom, which nowadays only is used in the countryside. There young men use big KRAMPUS-masks on a ‘procession’ through the villages.

Here you can see a picture of a very small ‘Krampus’

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In Portugal we don´t usually open a window on the Advent calendar or light a candle on the Advent wreath, but we carefully build our nativity scene and decorate our houses with mistletoe,  baubles and Christmas lights and of course we make sure we have a huge pile of logs in-store to warm up the Winter days. I´m attaching a picture of the preparations for the New Year´s Eve  in "Praça da Figueira" by the Tagus River, Lisbon.