Zwarte Piet

A quick run down on the random Dutch chrissy beliefs!!!
(pics are dodgy as I was horrendously hungover this day)

Sintaklaas (kind of like santa except he wears a pope hat) arrives in November on a boat from Spain with a horse.

Everyone comes to greet him in the streets to the sound of the oompah Dutch music.

Now the bit I find most hilarious and somewhat racist. He has hundreds of slaves called Zwarte Piet (black Pete) They are everywhere, abseiling of buildings, riding bikes all named Piet.

Hundreds of the little buggers, all white people with face paint running about the streets!! Madness!!!!