Guus Bosman

Tonight we'll be celebrating Sinterklaas with Ettie, Gerben and my parents in Middenmeer. We've prepared a number of poems, decorated presents and nice things for it. The preparations are of course part of the fun.

Sinterklaas is a Dutch traditional festivity. If you like to know more about it read for example this excellent introduction to Sinterklaas and the traditions around it. There is also a lot of information on the website of the Dutch Ministery of Foreign Affairs.


It's nice to see that so many people celebrate Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. Here's a story about children on a Dutch school in the UK celebrating Sinterklaas (in Dutch). It's from the newspaper Trouw, that has another interesting article on the history of Sinterklaas.