New Year's holiday for children in Cuba is called the Day of Kings. But these are not just kings, but they are wizard kings, they bring gifts and give them to children, they are called Melchor, Balthazar and Gaspar. On the eve of the children write letters to them in which they tell of their cherished desires.
Cubans on New Year's Eve fill everything with water, dishes, bottles, buckets and at midnight they start pouring it out of the windows. So all the people of the Island of Freedom wish…