Post #127548 by atomictonytiki on Fri, Nov 26, 2004 5:46 PM

On 2004-11-25 11:38, ZebraTiki wrote:
Sinterklaas currently lives in Spain, yes, Spain, semi-retired, and not Spanish speaking, in his former career, he was the Bishop of Turkey, which is where he gets his wardrobe influences. On December 5th, he arrives in the Netherlands via a boat fron Spain, astride his white horse, along with 6 to 8 Moorish 'helpers', Schwarte Piet being the lead helper.

I was living in Holland a few years back and the Main News actually has as a headline the arrival of Sinterklaas as the top news item, then every until (i think) the 10th it reprts which part of holland he is visting.
Schwarte Piet is Sinterklaas top spy he goes around checking all the kids, and what kids have to do is put their clog by the fire each night from the 5th until the 10th and if there is a sweet in it in the morning it means old piets been checking up.
The black helpers of santa are common through out europe in the Czech Republic Schwarte Piet is a little black devil.