Travel for the Over 30s

Merry Christmas from Australia ! Christmas is a bid weird in Australia. I mean its 40C plus outside and the malls are coated in fake snow, and carols talk about a “white Christmas” - only if you count sand mate!

A lot of Australians, particularly in large cities such as Melbourne and Sydney come from the European tradition of actually celebrating Christmas Eve and Midnight Mass rather than the more English custom of church in the morning and then Christmas lunch - usually from about 2pm on.  In fact I would hesitate a guess that only the minority got to any type of church these days and instead we focus on the over-eating and over-drinking side of events.  And if the mercury does hit 40C - well we don’t even need to worry about drinking too much before we are knocked out!

More than anything in Australia and even my home, New Zealand, Christmas represents the start of the long summer holidays and a different pace of life!

This is a scheduled post - and no I am not blogging on Christmas - not because  it has any huge  religious significance to me - but because we are on a road trip across theNullarbor and  I doubt that  I will have online access! Subscribe to the blog if you want to know how we get on - I’ll post about in the New Year!

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