So is that you sad and lonely foreigner biking through Delft all alone on Christmas Eve? Well come on, pull yourself together, don’t start feeling sorry for yourself yet! I’m here to help! A man with a plan! Listen, all you got to do is find out where some Polish foreign students live, or even some Polish laborers, and you’re in luck. You see, the Polish have this special ‘Wigilia’ Christmas dinner tradition that involves one extra place being set at the table in front of an empty chair, in case some unexpected guest or stranger happens to show up, which of course means all you’ve got to do, stranger, is knock on the right door in Delft and a delicious Polish Christmas feast is yours! – or else it’s just some b.s. Christmas tradition in theory, in which case they’ll probably slam the door in your face or, worse, if they’re drunken illegal workers, kick your butt off their balcony. But so what, at least you’ll have had a Christmas in Delft to remember. (Photo/caption: Babak Nikkhah Bahrami, from Iran/Netherlands, BSc mechanical engineering)
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