Today is Nikolaus Day in Germany.
This day is pretty important for German children, as it ranks like a small Christmas. That's why nearly all children in Germany will get very busy the evening before, cleaning all their shoes and lining them up nicely.
The saying is that Nikolaus will come during the night and if he finds clean shoes, he may drop sweets, cookies etc in them. So on this day children will get up early and go checking their shoes for success.
This is not really known here ein Taiwan, but I still got my hands on a nice Nikolaus boot (Sorry, completely forgot to take a photo.), filled it with cookies and put it in front of my daughter's door in the morning. "Fortunately" it's a little bit cold currently, so even without snow it feels a little bit like winter/Christmas.
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