Hi all,
Halloween is a fun time here for us here in the US and it got me wondering how other places celebrate/partake in Halloween.
I go all out decorating the house. I have projections in a few windows, some props and a “graveyard” outside.
We’ll see if I can get a good picture of the family this year in our costumes. Our house decorating has improved recently, at the kids’ behest, but still nothing to write home about.
It is a very American thing but I know loads of people here who love it. I don’t think I ever really got in to it as I was never allowed to go trick or treating as a kid.
I think Denmark is in some kind of transition regarding Halloween. When I grew up I hardly noticed it was there, but I think it gets bigger and bigger every year, primarily with decorations and themes in amusement parks etc. The trick-or-treat part has not really taken off yet - at least not that I know about. In the spring we have ‘Fastelavn’ which is costumes and trick-or-treating. I don’t know why though…
So I think it’s kinda 50/50. There are those that thinks we have enough in Fastelavn and that Halloween is an American thing, and then there are those that really goes for the Halloween-spirit.
Blew kinda over last years from US, even though it was there before, just like black friday, wasn’t as big before. Hard to escape from it, it’s getting commercialized more and more. Anything that brings more money is of good use these days so literally everything will connect something to halloween. I like the theme not how it’s used.
We spent our Halloween here in Sevilla…well in La Algaba…a small little town about 5 km just outside of Sevilla. We did some American traditions with our kids like carving pumpkins, but the Spaniards are picking up on Halloween pretty good. They are wearing costumes and going trick or treating. It is on a small scale but it is pretty neat to see. They even came through our street carrying a coffin which seemed to be a mix of a Dia de los Muertos and a Sevillian procession.