Even in grim times one has to celebrate! The bombs and terrorist attacks have not stopped us Dutch from celebrating "Sinterklaas"! The tradition of Sinterklaas (who is a bishop, lives in Spain, rides a white horse and comes to visit little Dutch children on the 5th of december with presents) is even upheld in India, with a slight Indian twist of course!

We had "pepernoten", lots of very sweet candy and a group of firm believers awaiting the Holy Man eagerly...so eagerly that they didn't even notice the Ambassador saying that he was glad to see so many children who still believed in Sinterklaas (if you were wondering, no, of course this is not the real one! This is a science teacher dressed up in a Sinterklaas costume...the real one lives in Spain and he'll be damned to climb on his horse and ride all around the world...the guy is 400 years old!).

Anyway, we had fun. T and I (not so very keen on anxious screaming children, we have outgrown that) volonteered to sell entry tickets and sat, very conveniently, near the entrance. At the moment it is app 24ºC in the daytime, which is wonderful, so we sat and enjoyed a relatively quiet afternoon. India at its best....thank god we have days like this one as well!!!