[Gocamino] 2007 Pilgrims

[Rebekah Scott]

Out here on the camino for new year´s eve we just drink a lot of aguardiente and stuff our mouths full of grapes and set off explosives. Someday I wanna waltz in the streets of Vienna! 

Rebekah Scott 
www.moratinoslife.blogspot.com


--- On Thu, 1/10/08, Robert Spenger <rspenger at earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Robert Spenger <rspenger at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gocamino] 2007 Pilgrims
> To: blaroli at aol.com
> Cc: GOCAMINO at oakapple.net, santiago at yahoogrupos.com.br
> Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008, 11:30 AM
> Rosina,
> 
> It must be an Alpine thing. When we visited my mother's
> home canton of  
> Appenzell in Switzerland, we learned that
> "Silvester" (they  spell it  
> sylvester) was a really big thing. But in Appenzell it is a
> bit more  
> rustic. Some of the men dress up to look like wild wood
> spirits,  
> decorated with lichens and pieces of bark. We have a couple
> of CDs of  
> the event and you can hear the barking of dogs as a
> background to the  
> rather wild music and singing. I suppose that it is in
> keeping with  
> the Swiss tradition of the Appenzellers being regarded as
> comic,  
> rustic characters. Quite a contrast to the sophistication
> of the  
> alpine cities like Geneva and Vienna.
> 
> Bob S.
> 
> 
> On Jan 10, 2008, at 4:36 AM, blaroli at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hello you all from  golden Vienna,
> They call New Year's "Silvester" and it is a
> huge, huge, days long  
> celebration all over the place despite the freezing cold.
> 
> Rosina
> 
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