Xmas season already started in EU?
About economic crisis: even with it, there are still hundreds of million people around the world that maybe have less money than before, but have by no means become poor, the real hit now is suffered by cars and houses sales (even boats are doing surprising well despite the crisis, according to producers at this year's Salone Nautico Internazionale di Genova, the International Boat Show in Genoa, it ended on 12th October).