Once again, Christmas will be celebrated differently this year: no big parties, but a negative self-test to join the family dinner. And not long dining in a restaurant, but with a takeaway menu at the dining table. And if it doesn’t go well, a Christmas in quarantine or isolation. How does the Netherlands celebrate Christmas 2021?
In other years, Paul Elsendoorn (68) goes to a restaurant for Christmas and attends a mass in the church. This year it is different; he is having dinner with his daughter and her children tonight. “Everyone, including the little ones, have been tested. We had agreed that in advance.”
Elsendoorn got Greek from a restaurant last night and the family is going gourmet tonight. “It’s difficult, but we made it very consciously.”
This restaurant in Eindhoven sold 2200 dinner boxes, but they are not completely happy with it:
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