People from the Northern hemisphere tend to celebrate Christmas with a hot roast (turkey or goose), a Christmas tree and a roaring log fire. Things are done very differently down under... As Christmas falls in the summer Aussies (and tourists on holiday) are just as likely to be found on the beach. Currently Bondi Beach in Sydney is the place to be seen on Christmas day. Dressed in your swimming cossies with obligatory santa hat and armed with a hamper carrying your cold turkey and trimmings plus the odd stubby! Even the Christmas cards feature surfing Koalas wearing santa hats!
Traditionalists may say it is not the same but especially after the recent cold snap we had in England over the Christmas period I would have loved to have seen in the New Year with a cold one on the beach...!
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