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Q: What things do you do to make your christmas away from home special?
What christmas traditions do you bring from home? I have been making minced pies and homemade mulled wine and made all my christmas decorations!
3 years in a row we've done full blown xmas in China. These are actually the first Scandinavian style xmasses my wife has participated in as she missed the ones while we lived back home. Traditional food, xmas tree, socks over the fireplace (that is, on a random wall) etc. And as a small tradition my parents did when I was a kid. 24 small presents neatly wrapped and hung in between the decorations, one for each day leading up to xmas
(to the ignorants, xmas is not on the 25th in large parts of the world, thus 24 small packages)
The food is a nightmare to shop for, but totally worth it. We've had different people for xmas dinner each year, all like the food even though the concept of how to eat it seems to not have sunken in.
We have a traditional "skype" dinner.... my family back home and my family here put the laptop at the end of the table and we all feast on traditional food together... after a few beers/wines, you forget its a skype call... HoHoHo...
None.
Here, I always been the only one around for who Christmas mean something, and nobody else. It kills the spirit of Christmas for me : the Christmas market, the red and green decorations, the cold weather outside but the house warm inside, those dishes where we pleasure ourselves with rare treats (wild salmon fish, spiny lobster, foie gras, champagne, etc), decorating the tree, the family united around a meal...
Im Canadian, Xmas means snow, or at least cold. But unfortunatly I live in Guangdong.
Leading up to Xmas we spend some time in HK, they have a little bit more of a festive feel. Then xmas is either catering a full turkey dinner at home with close friends and skype. Or we go and try to find snow and have a christmas dinner in a 5 star hotel.
Last year we went to Dalian. We where lucky and it snowed. So we found an empty park and my wife made her first snowman. We found a quiet cafe and had hot chocolate , then we stayed at the Hilton and it was quite a festive dinner actually.
This year we havent decided yet. We usually decide last minute. Look at the weather reports and see where the forcast is for snow and then buy tickets. We could always go to harbin as a fallback. But the dinner is important and the hotels and expat stuff is lacking.
Nothin. It's like I live on another planet. And it's all my own fault.
Maybe I'll have some naan bread dipped in Baileys.
