Nutcracker Day |

Depending on where you are at the moment, 26th December may be Boxing Day, St Stephen's Day or the Second Christmas Day. So today it's still technically a secular or religious holiday, but, unfortunately, marketing laws and consumerism turned this date into the beginning of the post-Christmas sales. Yet there may be more interesting and entertaining alternatives than locking yourself in a shopping mall.

One of them is going to the ballet and opting for a Christmas classic such as "The Nutcracker", a good option even for those ones who may not be ballet fans (there are enough costumes to distract even the most superficial fashionistas…). There are different shows in the main capitals all over the world (some of them celebrating the 120th anniversary of this ballet) by different corps de ballet, and, if you can't find any near where you are at the moment, you can still watch the ballet on YouTube. Enjoy it!