{"id":13760,"date":"2025-01-06T15:39:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13760"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:39:43","slug":"three-kings-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=13760","title":{"rendered":"Three Kings Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A long time ago, in a country far, far away, three kings arrived in Bethlehem. This event is celebrated in parts of Europe with &#8216;Dreik\u00f6nigstag&#8217; or Three Kings Day. Here in Switzerland a special bread is baked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2500\" height=\"1667\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091.jpeg 2500w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0091-450x300.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2500px) 100vw, 2500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In times gone by the ingredients for this bread &#8211; butter, eggs &amp; wheat flour were luxury commodities, so the bread was only baked on special days. One of the buns will contain a surprise, perhaps a miniature figure of a king. If you get the bun containing the surprise, you can be king for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It looks like the ticket lady on our train found the surprise!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1719\" src=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-1024x688.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-768x516.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-1536x1031.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-2048x1375.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/mikeeasley.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0332-447x300.jpeg 447w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s been a big storm here today, so everything was closed up at Scheidegg. It was a good excuse to pop down to Interlaken for shopping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, in a country far, far away, three kings arrived in Bethlehem. This event is celebrated in parts of Europe with &#8216;Dreik\u00f6nigstag&#8217; or Three Kings Day. Here in Switzerland a special bread is baked. 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