Holiday Blog
'Wacky' New Year's traditions─── 10:00 Wed, 01 Jan 2020
From ‘surviving’ your relatives to keeping your kids occupied, essential holiday safety tips and whipping up dream festive cuisine in less than no time, OFM’s very own Odette de Mascot has got you covered with OFM holiday hacks….
Did you know that pi equals 3.141592653589323846… not in the mood for dull facts? Here are some conversation starters for the New Year…
According to factinate.com, time travel is possible and you can celebrate New Year’s twice in a row! The Islands American Samoa and Samoa are about 160 km apart, but the International Date Line, separates them to be 24 hours apart and enables travellers to celebrate New Years twice.
If you want to leave the time traveling to Dr Who, why not travel to Spain? While other countries celebrate with fireworks, the Spaniards go for the more reserved option in eating 12 grapes at midnight to symbolise 12 months of good luck.
Then Greece shows us that just because you celebrate via vegetable, it doesn’t make you reserved.
According to worldstrides.com, some Greeks hang an onion on their front door as a symbol of rebirth. Then on New Year’s Day, parents wake their children by tapping them on the head with the onion.
