{"id":1022,"date":"2013-11-27T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T14:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2013-11-27T15:26:45","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T14:26:45","slug":"christmas-season-is-here-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2013\/11\/27\/christmas-season-is-here-like-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Season is here — Like it or Not"},"content":{"rendered":"

Personally, I prefer to wait until a week or two before Christmas before getting into the spirit of the season. \u00a0Karin likes to wait until after the American Thanksgiving before getting out the decorations. \u00a0This year, however, events are forcing our hand.<\/p>\n

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International Christmas Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

There are two Christmas Bazaars that we have attended in the past and since both are good sources of English language books we wanted to participate again this year. \u00a0I stumbled on a notice of the first, sponsored by IWAP, International Women’s Association of Prague<\/a> but we missed the Festival put on by the Diplomatic Spouse’s Association<\/a>.
\nBy the photo you can see we were in the minority. We did not enjoy this bazaar last time because it is way too crowded.<\/p>\n

We very much enjoyed the one we attended on Saturday, 23 November! \u00a0First we found some good books, second we discovered an addition to our heirloom collection \"Czechand third, we won a raffle prize–more good books. Yes, this a very good way to start the season. \u00a0I like it!<\/p>\n

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Next up is St. Mikulas Night<\/a> on 5 December<\/p>\n

Read about our first Prague Christmas in 2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Personally, I prefer to wait until a week or two before Christmas before getting into the spirit of the season. \u00a0Karin likes to wait until after the American Thanksgiving before getting out the decorations. \u00a0This year, however, events are forcing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[262,261,122,263,260],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2MK34-gu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3766,"url":"https:\/\/parosparadise.com\/CzechMates\/2015\/12\/04\/christmas-season-pf\/","url_meta":{"origin":1022,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Season: PF","author":"Michael","date":"December 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it is December and the Christmas season is well under way in Prague. \u00a0The Christmas Markets opened last weekend and the IWAP Christmas Bazaar, our favourite, is this Saturday. 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