{"id":13344,"date":"2018-12-08T06:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T06:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13344"},"modified":"2018-12-08T06:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T06:52:26","slug":"have-you-been-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13344","title":{"rendered":"Have you been good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany it\u2019s traditional for children to leave their shoes outside their bedroom doors on the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0December. If they have been good \u201cNikolaus\u201d will visit during the night to fill their shoes with sweeties.<\/p>\n<p>But if they have been bad, then a knight called Ruprecht visits instead.<\/p>\n<p>Knecht Ruprecht carries a long staff and wears a black or brown robe with a pointed hood and sometimes has bells on his clothes. Although he is a companion of Saint Nicholas, he hands\u00a0out coal or sticks to naughty children. Or sometimes hits them with his bag of ashes.<\/p>\n<p>So we were both surprised and pleased on our trip to Berlin to find a chocolate Santa hanging outside our hotel door when we awoke on St Nickolas Day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13345\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/img_0736.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Santa gift\" width=\"2736\" height=\"3648\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Other Chocolate Santa&#8217;s are available<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like a chocolate Santa of your own, a Dairy Milk Santa is available <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2UpFzOr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B015N86YTY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B015N86YTY&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=e2cd4bcbc760834f5855fe61d511b2e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13346 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/510wlln2fgl-_sl250_.jpg\" alt=\"Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate Santa \" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/510wlln2fgl-_sl250_.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/510wlln2fgl-_sl250_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/510wlln2fgl-_sl250_-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Germany it\u2019s traditional for children to leave their shoes outside their bedroom doors on the 5th\u00a0December. If they have been good \u201cNikolaus\u201d will visit during the night to fill their shoes with sweeties. But if they have been bad, then a knight called Ruprecht visits instead. Knecht Ruprecht carries a long staff and wears &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13344\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Have you been good?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521],"tags":[731,732,733],"class_list":["post-13344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","tag-chocolate-santa","tag-knecht-ruprecht","tag-st-nickolas-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Have you been good? - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13344\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Have you been good? - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Germany it\u2019s traditional for children to leave their shoes outside their bedroom doors on the 5th\u00a0December. 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