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Look What Happen to Your Kids When they Live in Spain…Halloween!

halloween in spain

As we just managed to survive another Halloween season, where our little friends Micky and Leo came to visit us again, we realised how different Halloween is here.

While in UK or America, Halloween gets to be full of decorations, amazing parties and crowds of people parading their scary costumes on the streets, in Spain it is not the same.

halloween in spainMost areas have the houses within urbanisations, so decorations can not be seem from the streets, and also hardly any Spaniards decorate their homes. Halloween is not so commercialized here in la Costa Blanca, you would hardly see a advert on TV about it. Which for some is great! But not for the British kids who are use to a big fuss!

Don’t take us wrong, school will allow kids to dress up on the day, and some shops will sponsor some activities to get more buyers. However Halloween for kids in Spain is different, with a competitive mentality! (no wonder why Spain is so good at sports), Kids in the enclosed compounds prepare themselves for it.

They will run door by door, they will push if they can, all ages all at once for a sweet! And something that many expats will agree with me, kids will not say thank you. Please don’t be confused but in Spain a child is considered too young to say please and thank you.

So if you have got a little one picking a handful of sweets without the magic words please don’t think anything of this, it is just part of their culture.

Last year Halloween was so wild in Cala Cantalar Urba, Micky and Leo former home that some kids were actually banned from playing this year!!

Still everything was great fun, it’s safe to let the kids run around and parents are happy to go along with their offspring!

Can you spot Lea and Micky?

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