The Boy and The Coconut Tree

I've celebrated Christmas or part of Christmas in Australia, the USA, and Vietnam and now it is the turn of Spain or more specifically, Catalonia. In Vietnam and the USA the Christmas resembled the one I am used to, trees, Santa Claus, Reindeers and images of Snowmen etc, Australia was almost the same except the heat on Christmas day was 100f and I ate grilled prawns in someone’s garden and drank chilled beer from a cooler. Here in Barcelona over the past few weeks the lights have gone up, the trees are decorated and the stores are full of the signs saying Bon Nadal or Feliz Navidad depending on what language you speak. In Spain the children receive their gifts on January 6, it is a holiday called Reyes (Kings) and is the day the 3 Kings arrived to visit the baby Jesus etc. and gave him gift vouchers from M&S and Argos (or is that the British version), or something like that. In some Spanish households the children also receive some gifts on Christmas day the sa...