TRADITIONS

TRADITIONS AROUND EUROPE

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• The bride-to-be makes coffee for everyone after both families settle down and get to know each other.
• When arranged marriages were customary, if a woman did not want to marry a man, she would put salt in his coffee to show that she did not want to marry him.
• However, in recent years, this custom has shifted, and women have begun to add salt to the men's coffee regardless of the circumstances, just for pleasure.

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• Gloucestershire's famous Cheese Rolling tradition has attracted so many people.
• The objective? Simple: to be the first competitor to cross the finish line following a rolling round of Double Gloucester cheese.
• The winner must then perform a shirtless sprint - trophy in hand -back up Cooper's Hill, in a cheese-centric, Circle of Life-type act of symbolism that celebrates the cheese's creation, release, and eventual re-capture.

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• People in this country believe that when a child is born, he or she will be visited by the Fate fairies on the 3rd day, after sunset.
• That is why, it is customary to welcome the faires with a selection of gifts, such as flour, salt, coins, wine, flowers and even cakes.
• They are traditionally placed by the window by the child’s godmother.

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• On ‘Wet Monday’, boys soak girls with water. It is an age-old tradition that has existed for generations.
• On this particular morning, boys all over the country sneak into the bedrooms of the girls and wake them up by pouring water on them. The theme continues throughout the day, as buckets are launched at girls walking through the streets. There are special water fight events also organised on this day.
• The girls who end up the wettest are said to be the ones who will get married first. The following day offers the chance for revenge, as the girls use the Tuesday to soak the boys.

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• People use week numbers instead of conventional calendar dates in this country.
• That is to say, instead of saying May the 7th, most people would refer to today as Thursday, week 19. And just the way most of us have a mental image of what the weather in November is like, or what they normally do in July, most of the people in this country can easily picture the icy winds of week 6, or the busy shopping streets of week 50.
• This is the very system they use for planning, organising and communicating.

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