But they’re a bit more complicated and interesting than that ... as a surprise to those not familiar with the local New Year’s traditions to see hordes of Danes roaming the streets hurling ...

How well do you know these New Year’s traditions - some dating back hundreds of years and many of them still carried on in the UK today? From China's Dongzhi festival to St Lucia's Day in ...

As a child, I would pray that the first day of Spring wouldn’t start in the wee hours of the morning, when I was most likely sleeping, because there is this interesting ... Nowruz Khani' tradition of ...