I just stumbled upon an image of the Christmas tree currently in Brussels’s central square. The caption calls it an abstract art installation. To wit, green plastic is stretched over a light steel structure, and lighting is placed inside. Although the installation is not exactly my cup of tea, I quite like the fact that it is artificial to boot. By contrast, the Christmas tree currently in Zagreb’s central square made me cringe when I saw it delivered by truck a week or so ago. It is a real tree. And it is humongous. The traces of the saw in its thick trunk actually made me pretty uncomfortable. As I commented to my beloved at the time, they could have used a fake tree instead. And the Brussels’s solution is the obvious way forward. There are few countries as Catholic as Croatia, though. Each and every year a huge tree has to be felled for the staunch believers. Fake tree would only annoy Christians like these.