July 30, 2024

Venezuelans roller skating to Christmas Mass at sunrise

Courtesy of the book "Navidades para chamos venezulanos"

Las patinatas, “the skating,” “is most definitely real,” the Venezuelan-born Coromoto Power told me by phone from England, where she and her mother Beatrix now live. “It’s like a mini-festival. There’s just loads of people that turn up in a park, and there’s music. Imagine Central Park, with its paths and so on, and you skate around and sing Christmas songs.” By Jim McDermott. Full Text -> AmericaMagazine

For Venezuelan chrismas traditions the book -> Navidades para chamos venezolanos. ->Amazon

Traducción de cortesía -> Las patinatas, “the skating,” “is most definitely real,” the Venezuelan-born Coromoto Power told me by phone from England, where she and her mother Beatrix now live. “It’s like a mini-festival. There’s just loads of people that turn up in a park, and there’s music. Imagine Central Park, with its paths and so on, and you skate around and sing Christmas songs.”

For Venezuelan chrismas traditions the book -> Navidades para chamos venezolanos. ->Amazon

Translation/ Traducción