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Father Christmas arrives on Virtual Tripping.
By Mark on December 5, 2008
Does Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas or Kris Kringle really exsist, my post is to prove that Father Christmas is still around. It surprises me that so many adults and teenagers do not believe in Father Christmas. But they tell their own children he does exsist. I know for a fact that Father Christmas is alive and well in Santa’s Village, Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland, Europe.
This is a satellite image taken on Google Earth of the town Rovaeimi, Lapland, Finland, Europe. Father Christmas’s home town.
This is a picture to show where Santa’s Village is based in Rovaneimi.
There are many of Father Christmas’s employee’s who work all around the world and he really does appreciate the hard work and effort that all of his staff do. As you can imagine there is only one Father Christmas. But the earth is a huge place and so alot of his staff dress up as him and do the work of finding out what the young children of this world want. They then send all the letters by a special post to Santa’s Village, where the Elf’s sort out the post. Father Christmas stays in his village all year round, checking that the toys are correct and ready to play with. The only time Father Christmas leaves Lapland is on Christmas Eve. Now he has some magic dust, that the worlds clocks slow down to zero. So he and his reindeer have enough time to deliever your presents and eat those wonderful mince pies and a glass of sherry. But what Father Christmas does is he puts the sherry in a bottle, to take back with him and stores the mince pies in his coat. We start with a lovely song sang by Mariah Carey on Youtube, “Santa Claus is coming to town”.
Father Christmas became an icon in the 15th century, and went on to become the person we know today. But did you know that Father Christmas was originally a large jolly elf who gave presents. I do also know that the character in the “Christmas Carol“, the ghost of Christmas Present was based on Father Christmas. But he was a large man, but not overweight and he wore a green coat and had a red beard.
He came in while Ebenezer Scrooge was sleeping, and showed Scrooge what was happening in his life. And that is when he saw Bob Cratchit having lunch with his family and little tiny Tim. Bob Cratchit happened to wish Ebernezer thanks for the food on the table, but bob’s wife was not happy with that. Below is a five minute video of Santa’s Village within Rovaneimi, Lapland, Finland, enjoy.
This is a movie video of Santa’s Village, Rovaneimi, taken from Youtube.
Now here is a fact that you may or may not know? Father Christmas originates from Saint Nicholas, but how this happened is a very strange but true story. Saint Nicholas was a very shy man, who wanted to help the poor people of his time, but did not want them to know who it was giving them money. Well, one night Saint Nicholas crept into a garden and climbed up on to the roof, he then dropped some money down the chimmney, not knowing, that a girl had hung up a stocking to dry over the fire place. The money unbelievably dropped right into her stocking. And in the morning when the family woke up they had a bit of a surprise and could not understand what had happened. Saint Nicholas did this to a few homes along the way, and I am assuming he was spotted doing this act one night, for him to be associated with Father Christmas. So remember children if you ever see Father Christmas climbing up and down the chimmney. It was Saint Nicholas who made this happen.
This is a picture of Santa’s Village in Lapland taken from panoramio.
This is another panoramio picture of Santa’s Village in Lapland.
This is a picture from panoramio of the entrance to Santa’s Village in Lapland.
This is a panoramio picture of the real Santa Claus sitting near his fire in his home in Santa’s Village, Lapland
This is a picture of a reindeer crossing the road in Lapland, taken from Panoramio, Could this be Rudolph?.
This is a video of Father Christmas reading the story of “The Night Before Christmas” on Youtube.
Mrs Chrstmas singing her song on Youtube.
Here is a video of Father Christmas singing his favourite song on Youtube.
I do hope that you enjoyed this post as there will be more coming in the new year, so keep reading and coming back to Virtual Tripping for fun and learning. I would just like to thank Father Christmas, Google Earth, Wikipedia, Youtube and you in internet space, as my brother and I would not beable to achieve what we have without your comments and support. So thankyou and we both wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and may good luck bless you all in 2009.
- Learn about Father Christmas or Santa Claus on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Mrs Claus on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Rudolph the red nose reindeer on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Rovaniemi on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Lapland Province on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Finland on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Christmas Day on Wikipedia:
- Find Rovaneimi on Googe Earth:li>
- Find Lapland on Google Earth:
- Find Finland on Google Earth:
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Nick Ramsay, exploring the world from a zabuton in Japan.
5:03 pm on December 5th, 2008
Well done Mark, I have learnt the true story about Father Christmas now, a very informative and comprehensive post.
A lot of hard work has gone into this I can tell.
You have got some great videos.
6:55 pm on December 5th, 2008
Thanks mma it is fun, entertaining and very informative. I love it.
10:36 am on December 6th, 2008
What a Christmassy post! Interesting tale about the “money in stockings” origins, but there’s another possible explanation for Santa Claus, but it’s a bit grim, and when I spoke of it at the Christmas dinner table a few years back, with our parents and grandparents there, they didn’t take too kindly to the bit about the butcher. Anyway, here it is.
12:06 pm on December 6th, 2008
Gosh Nick that is fascinating, I had no idea he did those amazing things. So that must be why Father Christmas is so popular. Thanks for that Link, bye.
11:56 am on December 10th, 2008
This is brilliant Mark. I am sure you will have a lot f views for this especially from children. I have learnt a lot about Father Christmas that I didn’t know and I love the videos. Well done.
I wish you had some emoticons on this site. I wanted to put a Christmas one here but it won’t let me paste one on.
Love Mum
3:40 pm on December 10th, 2008
Thanks Mum, That is ashame about the emoticons, When I see you next You could teach me how to do it. I do hope people will look at my site because it is good and I have another one on the way soon.
7:17 pm on December 16th, 2009
hi my name is sophie i like santa claus
i like his reindeers
i hope they have a nice christmas day and a happy new year
from sophie
8:09 pm on December 27th, 2009
Thankyou very much, sophie, i do hope you recieved what you wanted for christmas, from father christmas,
Father Christmas likes you to and so does his reindeer.
kind regards
Mark Ramsay.