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What is Christmas all about?

In the northern hemisphere (well at least in London) Christmas seems a conveniently timed festival……. Just as we’re all just getting cold and miserable and then we have an excuse to take some time away from work, spend time with family, indulge in some festive food, get drunk, buy/receive presents and do many other things which on the whole will make us feel better.

Totally Different Christmas

Stucros
2007-03-08 17:09:11

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What is Christmas all about?

In the northern hemisphere (well at least in London) Christmas seems a conveniently timed festival....... Just as we're all just getting cold and miserable and then we have an excuse to take some time away from work, spend time with family, indulge in some festive food, get drunk, buy/receive presents and do many other things which on the whole will make us feel better.

Many ex-pats in oz exchange comment on how it doesn't feel like Christmas over here..... The weather for one leaves us disorientated and most won't have family around but this year I've noticed something different...... I simply didn't need Christmas as much - for every morning I am greeted by bright sunshine and most weekends are spent on the beach!!!
Given my new climate and country I decided to have a totally different Christmas.

First up for the weekend before I went to 'Surf Camp'.... What's the first rule Surf Camp (We'll get to that later).
For the grand sum of 220aud we were driven 3 hours up the coast given two nights accommodation/food and two day of surf lessons. We (Rod, Esther and myself) left Friday night and had quite a boozy bus ride up before arriving at our ranch which was literally in the middle of nowhere..... first impressions the place seemed a little strange. I thought the pool was a nice touch but the sauna off the bar, massive Jacuzzi in the dorm and carefully placed mirrors seemed to require some more explanation...... and during the first night we found out that our residence had indeed once been a swingers club.

Up early the next day and ready to go we went to a beach imaginatively named the 'lighthouse beach'..... being the 'Second most easterly point of mainland Australia' the waters have claimed over 100 ships and thus it needed a lighthouse! ED: Australians love to point out the that something is 'the most this or that' as if it's a claim to fame but touting yourself as the ...