Conjure up the smell and taste of Vietnamese cuisine in your home. Open the door to one of the healthiest kitchens in the world.
Christmas holidays are known for feelings of warmth, closeness and love. At that time, we spend time with our loved ones, and we also celebrate a bunch of Christmas traditions - customs that each family sets for itself. We have prepared 6 ideas for Christmas traditions that you can start with your loved ones this year.
One interesting fact about Iceland: Most of the population believes that invisible elves and trolls are real. Another fact: there are no McDonalds in Iceland. And one last thing: there is an Icelandic Christmas tradition called Jólabókaflóð, and everyone should try it this year!
The end of February this year also marks the end of winter and the call of spring. Kurents will dance in the oldest Slovenian city on February 23 and start calling for spring and all good things. During the 59th Kurentovanje 2019, as part of Artfest, Etnofest and Karnevalfest, you will be part of ethnographic and carnival processions, concerts, masked dances, you will also be able to see exhibitions, ethnographic characters, carnival baskets and much more.
People from different parts of the world practice special and interesting holiday traditions. One of these is definitely kissing under the mistletoe, which we see time and time again in movies. The reason why some people kiss under the mistletoe at Christmas has its roots in mythology.
Where ties are woven between tradition and modernity, between art and cuisine, between local and global, between nations. October 6 is reserved for delicious traditional food.
If you think the world is getting crazier every year, you'll be surprised to find out that we live a "smart life" because our ancestors did things we never dreamed they could do.
The main square in Maribor is richer for bars and hotels, which bring back to the city a sense of nostalgia for the traditional, bourgeois and homely. Gostilna Maribor conjures up traditional Styrian cuisine for citizens and tourists, bringing back the memory of their grandmothers' kitchen to the former, and introducing local cuisine to the latter. Therefore, all of you who will visit the city by the Drava in the future, do not forget to stop at the Maribor Inn, where you can (re)experience the old days of the Styrian capital and taste excellent traditional dishes.
If you thought that a wedding dress can only be white or that it is the most beautiful, you are wrong. Check out these beautiful traditional wedding dresses worn by brides around the world.
In Iceland, the land of fire and ice, bread is not baked in an oven or oven, but buried in the ground and let geothermal energy do its work. See how bread is made in Iceland.
What do traditional wedding dresses look like around the world? When the word applies to a wedding dress, the first thing that comes to mind is a white wedding dress. But if this question were asked in another part of the world, people would describe it quite differently. Although, for the sake of movies and tradition, we in the Western world are filled with the feeling that wedding dresses are traditionally white, this is far from the case. Each nation has its own traditions and some of them are successfully nurtured, while many cultures have adopted the traditional Western "white wedding", where the bride wears a white wedding dress and a veil. This is far from being (was) the traditional bride in India, Ghana, Mongolia, Hungary, Japan, Norway... even in Scotland, the wedding dress is completely different from the one usually worn by a Slovenian bride. See what traditional wedding dresses look like around the world.
Celebrating Christmas is a tradition found on all continents of the world. Nevertheless, not all countries know Santa Claus, nativity scenes and presents under festively decorated Christmas trees. We invite you to take a walk through the most interesting traditions of celebrating Christmas around the world!