Try to make the new year look as little as possible to the previous one
At home. Peel the grapes, remove the tito and eat them all before the last bell rings. Put on red panties, new clothes, throw the gold ring in the cava. Toast with the left hand and looking into the eyes. Never with water. Be surprised with Fofito that things go wrong when we have done everything so well.
In the village. Go out into the street, look at the same old faces and become aware like never before that the new year looks suspiciously like the previous one and that the idea that it is a new beginning is fiction. He comments with the neighbors that the frosts of before do not fall anymore, that this is indeed a tradition.
In the cotillion The open bar was invented in Rome, in orgies. The theory here is that it will always be better to end up on the floor and/or in the arms of an orc with a tie than to feel in the morning that you have wasted the investment in time and money of the little dress, the hairdresser, the dinner and the cotillion.
In Times Square. There are a million tourists celebrating at the same time and when it strikes twelve they go to kiss. It would be bad luck if your wife or one of your people touched you.
At the Gate of the Sun. Live the hazing of celebrating the new year in what seems like an endearing Easter tradition and discover around you a mix of bottle drinkers, gallows types and, in general, people who hate Christmas and that's why they haven't stayed home.
In China. In South Africa they celebrate a second new year on January 2 and we extend the festivities until Three Kings. But in China they beat us and start the year in a month. Soon they will have learned to copy us how the parties get longer by catching a mosquito here, a vacation day there and one of their own affairs there and the world will be a better place.
In the Canary Islands. If you spend New Year's Eve in the Canary Islands, everyone will call you at eleven o'clock and spoilers will rain down on you.
In Italy. They say that in some places they did a reverse Ikea and disassembled the furniture with the system of throwing it out of the windows. Going out there that day could not be more dangerous than doing it in Spain, where firecrackers of anti-aircraft caliber fall from all the windows. One year they caught me at twelve away from home and it has been the closest I have ever been to war reporting. Try it to start the year with full adrenaline.
If you have had a bad year. Go to Tonga and you'll finish it before anyone else. It is the typical place where they say goodbye to the year thirteen hours before us, the first of all. You take the plane back as soon as you finish and you're done.
With a few extra pounds. In the Philippines, people spend New Year's Eve surrounded by round objects that represent coins and wealth. It's the perfect place to spend New Year's Eve if you've overeaten this Christmas and want to end the year with lots of friends and high self-esteem instead of a bunch of depressing diet resolutions.
In Puerto Rico. They hit 12 shots in the air to the sound of the chimes. It's time to settle accounts with the upstairs neighbor who moves furniture and dances the chachachá the rest of the year.
In London. People, in Trafalgar, Piccadilly and a lot of squares, put their hands together and sing the traditional song "Auld Lang Syne". Since we don't know it and for a fix, we Spaniards usually try Mecano's and hardly anyone notices the difference.
in Romania. Marriageable girls go to a well with a candle and search the surface of the water for the reflection of the face of her future husband. The usual thing is that they get frog.