Generally always go away at Christmas, although we weren't able to leave the country last year due to Covid. We're going to NYC this year for 2 weeks and although it isn't my first choice of destination I far prefer it to staying at home and attending family events etc.
Going away for Christmas, is it weird?
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Not Christmas, but I did fly to New York on Boxing Day in 2015. We spent the new year there and returned to the UK early January.
It felt weird seeing all Christmas trees and shops done up but I think part of that was because we had effectively looked past Christmas in anticipation to the trip, so when we arrived we weren’t feeling very Christmassy.
The flight and airport was pretty busy, which shocked me.
It felt weird seeing all Christmas trees and shops done up but I think part of that was because we had effectively looked past Christmas in anticipation to the trip, so when we arrived we weren’t feeling very Christmassy.
The flight and airport was pretty busy, which shocked me.
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Done the Florida /Disney thing with my brother's family and my parents, 10 of us. Was great, warm, BBQ pool party Christmas day.
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My best friend lives in Thailand with her partner and she misses the UK Christmas.
Her partner is Australian so quite used to having a hot Christmas but yeah, she says it's just not quite the same.
She is from a huge family though. She has 2 older sisters and 3 younger brothers and a younger sister.
Her partner is Australian so quite used to having a hot Christmas but yeah, she says it's just not quite the same.
She is from a huge family though. She has 2 older sisters and 3 younger brothers and a younger sister.
Totally relate to it. Christmas is 50% traditions 50% family. Christmas in Sweden is still meaningless to me after 7 of them. The one year I did come back was 2019 just before 2 years of COVID insanity. I'm 99% sure I had it back then, totally lost taste and was sick as a doge. So yeah sucks to be me.
Spent one Christmas on my own in Peru...well not on my own, in a hostel, with lots of strangers....good fun.
Spent one in Sihanoukville, Cambodia with the new missus at the time.
Did several in Hong Kong and Germany when I was living there.
Think I've had Christmas with my family once in the last 12-odd years thinking about it.
Spent one in Sihanoukville, Cambodia with the new missus at the time.
Did several in Hong Kong and Germany when I was living there.
Think I've had Christmas with my family once in the last 12-odd years thinking about it.
We go away every Christmas (Covid permitting). We go to Banff in the Canadian Rockies. It all started about 10 years ago when we simply got fed up of Christmas where it basically looked like a rainy August/September day outside. Just for once we wanted a Christmas like you see on Christmas cards and tv adverts, so we started spending Christmas in Banff. Its downright awesome. Getting up in the morning, starting a crackling log fire, throwing back the curtains and see several feet of snow covering everything in the Canadian forests outside. Its superb, actually FEELS like Christmas and we've gone every year (barring last year) ever since.
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Please say you’re not one of those people that stay in the same exact lodge every year?
Don’t you get bored going to the same place? Genuine question, as I understand the logic of wanting to get away as a change but going to the same place sort of invalidates the argument of not wanting to see the same scenery every year.
Yup
We stay at the same lodge every time, its a stand alone lodge in the forest just east of Banff. So we're the only 2 people in it. Brilliant. I mean its not like we stay inside the lodge the whole time, it simply acts as our basepoint, there's the whole of Alberta and the neighbouring provinces of British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Northwest Territories to explore. The superb thing about Canada is that its something like the 4th largest country in the world, is 40 times the size of the UK but has only half the population of the UK. Which means vast amounts of incredible scenery and all in beautiful Christmas-esque snowiness, far nicer than a wet September-Christmas Day in crappy old Britain
EDIT : ah, actually Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world, even bigger than I realised.
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My Dad does this.
I don't understand. He goes to Madeira with his wife to stay in the same hotel every year for 4-6 weeks at a time. I mean, if it was perhaps a much larger city then maybe I can get the logic but I have been to Madeira and there is not a lot there...
I don’t have to pay for accommodation there, so it’s usually a relatively cheap holiday. In the past I drove to Houston and flew Spirit (think US Ryanair) from there to NYC which made it even cheaper, but this year we’re flying from Monterrey as the land border will be chaos traffic-wise.
I’d personally have preferred to go somewhere hot and with a beach but my wife really wanted to go to NYC so I decided to give in on the condition that I get to choose our next destination.
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I don’t know what to do with myself at Christmas when the time comes when none of my parents are around. Only child, immediate family are dull
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I like the food mostly but that's about it.
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The Fam and I are going away to a country that does not even celebrate Christmas, for Christmas.