How funny! My eldest son lived in Brasil for a few years. ( In Port Natal) He speaks Portuguese very well. I live in the Netherlands, my father is a German, did live for more than 25 years in Greece (he passed away a few years ago). My youngest brother is Greece to and my mother remarried with some one from Egypt when I was young and my best friend is Spanish..
How multiculti is that!
Yes Ligia, Sinterklaas did arrive from Spain in Holland again this year with his boat :) On 6 decembre he leave the country but before that children are every morning exiting to find some present in their shoe... Sinterklaas is on his horse when it is night, on the roof and he gives present to every good child. He has some helping hands...the called Zwarte PIet...(Black Pete). And the children love Sinterklaas so much!
http://www.dutchmarket.com/sklaas.html