My christmas away from home. smokey I really live in a city called Sumter in South Carolina in America . Moving to N.Ireland was very hard as I had to quit high school and be in a small tech.The country, though is awsome and this is my first and only christmas here as I’m jetting

Christmas in Scotland laudrup11 The television ads for christmas gifts usually begin about October, and shops usually begin having their decorations up about the beginning of November. Children have advent calendars from the 1st of December to count down the days until christmas. Traditionally, christmas decorations and trees are put up 12 days before christmas

Christmas in England Felipe Almeida Christmas in England By Raphael Christmas in England is a time for everybody in your family or your friends to celebrate together. In the morning we sit in the living room and everybody has a time to say what they want. Before our celebration starts you light the fire so

My Christmas In England coco113 My Christmas in england was two years ago. It was much different than back in the U.S. Christmas there is about food, may I add cold food that doesn’t taste very good. I guess the reason why I didn’t enjoy my Cristmas there becasue I wasn’t at home and missed

Christmas in Orkney KCLS OK, so we have the usual: tree, stockings, turkey etc. But we also have the Ba’ Game. Christmas Day there are two games, held in Kirkwall, the main town in the Islands. One is for Boys, one for Men and each game has two sides, the Uppies and the Doonies. Uppies

Christmas in London emma I thought you’d like to know what Christmas is like for me, a 32-year old woman living in London. I live with my boyfriend Alex (we’ve been together since we were 18), and we own a big apartment next to a park in London. We both work, we earn about 2/3

Remembering an English Christmas misscroc1 I now live in the States, but this is how I remember an English Christmas: It would start with my mother making the Christmas cake, early November if I remember right. It had to sit a few weeks before we iced it. It would smell so good. Then it would

Christmas in the North West craine1998 Our Christmas celebrations start on Christmas Eve with a Crib Service in our local church. Giant figures from the navity scene are carried into church and everyone sings traditional carols and listens to readings about the first Christmas. Our four children love to watch as the Baby Jesus is

My Traditional Family Christmas. Jemma I usually start thinking about Christmas at late October time. All my family and friends think I’m strange because I think about it so early but say that they would be worried if I didn’t! My family puts up our tree in the middle of December, about a week after

A rural English Christmas I grew up in a village in the East of England I grew up in a village in the East of England, in a family which was close knit and happy. Christmas was always a good time, but underlying the food, the fun and the presents there was always something more,

A Family Christmas Celebration Sue Well I hope that by now you have started your Christmas Shopping for gifts for your family and friends!! We are starting our family Christmas celebrations from the second week in December buying fresh Christmas Trees from the farm and placing one on our balcony and the other in the

A Perfect Christmas Rosie, 13 Usually in late evening, we light the open fire, watch TV, and put out our stockings and mince pies and brandy for Father Christmas, and a carrot for Rudolph. Then we go to bed, excitedly waiting for the next morning. We usually get up at 6.30, and go into our

Lapland Linz I spent one year in Finland when I was 17 years old, visiting family and learning the langugae and cusotms that I had heard about during my childhood. I was very homesick during the holiday season, and could only think about going home, not celebrating. My cousin knew this and invited me to

Santa does NOT live at the North Pole! jhyrsky Lots of people seem to be unaware of the fact that Santa lives in Finnish Lapland. At the foot of a distant fell called Korvatunturi in Finnish (Ear Fell in English), Santa has his village where he lives with his wife and hundreds of elves, who

Christmas in Finland H.E. Christmas begins at the night of the 23rd after the kids have gone to bed. Adults stay up late drinking coffee, making food, decorating and organizing so that when children wake up early the next day, the house is clean and smells good. Kids wake up before dawn, open their calendars