Best of times: Dutch Dickens festival brings Christmas cheer

For two days, the Dutch city of Deventer celebrates the famous British author and the characters of his books

“Merry Christmas,” bellowed a top hat and cape-clad gentleman in full Victorian garb, to the amusement of passers-by at a festival celebrating the work of Charles Dickens.

Yet the scene, which could have been plucked straight from the pages of one of the English literary titan’s much-beloved tomes, did not take place on the streets of London but in the Netherlands.

Read more about the festival in Deventer on Times2.

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