Halloween or Castanyada? I prefer "Castanyaloween"
Hello, I am going to write about what I celebrate on the 31st of October, which is a day full of events in Catalonia. We combine Halloween and "La Castanyada", which is a very popular event here.
It is said that when it's time to harvest chestnuts, the "chestnutter" (who is an old woman dressed with a long skirt and a headscarf) comes happily from the mountains with a basket full of chestnuts. She visits schools and parks and gives children toasted chestnuts in cones of newspaper.
I don't really like chestnuts but their smell, the cold weather and the fallen leaves make me feel the arrival of autumn and it's great.
So every 31st of October I celebrate "Castanyaloween", a scary costume dinner party with toasted chestnuts as dessert. A fantastic combination :-)
This is a "castanyera" giving a child toasted chestnuts:
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Halloween or Castanyada? I prefer "Castanyaloween"
Hello, I am going to write about what I celebrate on the 31st of October, which is a day full of events in Catalonia. We combine Halloween and "La Castanyada", which is a very popular celebration here.It is said that when it's time to harvest chestnuts, the "chestnutter" (who is an old woman dressed with a long skirt and a headscarf) comes happily from the mountains with a basket full of chestnuts. She visits schools and parks and gives children toasted* chestnuts in newspaper cones.
I don't really like chestnuts but their smell, the cold weather and the fallen leaves makes me feel the arrival of autumn and it's great.
So every 31st of October I celebrate "Castanyaloween", a scary costume dinner party with toasted chestnuts as dessert. A fantastic combination :-)
This is a "castanyera" giving a child toasted chestnuts:
*or, roasted..
Very well written!
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Halloween or Castanyada? I prefer "Castanyaloween"
Hello, I am going to write about what I celebrate on the 31st of October(more common:"I'm going to write about how I celebrate the 31st of October" but your version is correct.), which is a day full of events in Catalonia. We combine Halloween and "La Castanyada", which is a very popular event here.It is said that when it's time to harvest chestnuts, the "chestnutter" (who is an old woman dressed with a long skirt and a headscarf) comes happily from the mountains with a basket full of chestnuts. She visits schools and parks and gives children toasted chestnuts in cones of newspaper.
I don't really like chestnuts but their smell, the cold weather and the fallen leaves make me feel the arrival of autumn and it's great.
So every 31st of October I celebrate "Castanyaloween", a scary costume dinner party with toasted chestnuts as dessert. A fantastic combination :-)
This is a "castanyera" giving a child toasted chestnuts:
Thanks for writing about this, I learned something new. You write quite well in English!
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'Fish and chips', a famous British dish, was often wrapped up in a newspaper cone. I guess because old newspapers are cheap and could keep things warm. Come to think of it, if you built anything other than a cone; a box or a ball or a tetrahedron or a cylinder..., the chips might go cold when you were building it. I can imagine my taking several minutes to build a tetrahedron, maybe even an hour.
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Hi Altini, that's an interesting question... I don't really have a clue so I'm going to check it, but I guess it's like a castanyera's "mark".
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