3 - 'Rituals'

This is a special cake made only when someone beloved dies.

Going Dutch, a phrase that arguably owes its origin to a door, a traditional Dutch farmhouses door consisted of two equal parts - is common practice today.

Romanian traditional dance

This is an extremely old ritual practiced now only in a few villages in which they used special masks and dances to assure fertility and good will.

People wearing bear furs perform during a festival of New Year ritual dances attended by hundreds northern Romania

This is an Easter tradition in which Romanians ornate the eggs in the most special way posible.

During celebrations for the birth of a child, the Dutch eat toast with colored aniseed, known as 'mice'. In the case of a boy, the mice are colored blue, in case the mice are pink, a girl has been born.

Every year, thousands of red 'Unox' hats are given away along with hot dogs and pea soup when the Dutch celebrate the new year by diving into the ice-cold North Sea waters en masse.

Eating 'out of the wall' is a common Dutch phrase involving grabbing a quick bite from an automated snack bar. A coin is inserted, the lock on the window is released and customers enjoy their favorite snacks on-the-go.

Traditionally, raw herring is eaten with cubes of onion, and the fish is lowered into the mouth as demonstrated in the picture.