Harry Had Managed to Buy The Presents and Was Hurrying Home, When...

by Monique Barb - Harry entered the house. He was very happy because it was Christmas. He imagined his father reading the newspaper on his favourite armchair, his mother baking cookies in the kitchen and his sister sitting near the Christmas Tree singing carols. And of course, he thought he would see Blackie, his little dog in front of the door. It was a quiet atmosphere. He didn’t see his f ...

Date added: 02 February '07

A Sentimental Christmas Journey

by Monique Barb - These are extraordinary times for traveling, for knowing and improving, for spending holidays whenever one wants, at home, or abroad, in Romania, Europe or South America for example. Recently Romania has joined the European Union family therefore, dreams long time repressed are allowed to come to life, waiting for fulfillment. Mine has always been to spend Christmas in t ...

Date added: 10 February '07

Stockholm, the ideal Christmas destination

There are still some places that embrace Christmas not as an opportunity for vast spending, hellish travel and family drama, but as an age-old, almost primitive rite of beating back the darkness of winter. This does not mean that visiting the neighbor’s that’s blanketed in blinking lights at the end of the cul-de-sac. It means traveling to a city like Stockholm which has real reindeer (more on tha ...

Date added: 17 December '07