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For Anyone Wondering What Christmas In Australia Is Really Like, These 30 Tweets Should Give You An Idea
Spending Christmas with another family is a bit of a challenge. The music playlist is not what you expected, the food doesn't taste like what you're used to, and you don't feel that confident interrupting the person who is talking nonsense. Everything is the same, but different. But imagine the holiday season on the other side of the Earth... It's blazing, Santa is wearing shorts, and the neighborhood python popped into your house to say hi. Yes, I'm talking about Australia. For your understanding of one of the most popular celebrations in the world, here are some tweets that sum up what it is really like in the Southern hemisphere.
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According to WhyChristmas, one of the largest Christmas information sites on the web, in Australia, Christmas comes in towards the beginning of the summer holidays—Children have their summer holidays from mid-December to early February, so some people might even be camping at Christmas.
"The temperature is normally in the mid to high 20 degrees Celsius; this makes it good weather to head to the beach or just the outdoors generally at Christmas time," the founder of the website and Christmas-loving web designer James Cooper told Bored Panda.
Cooper said Christmas in Australia is full of what we consider traditional Western Christmas items, like trees, wreaths, and, yes, fake snow. "Although the latter is rather odd, it's also part of a proper Christmas for many Australians."
A fan?!?! Are you joking? It's going to be 42C tmrw, which is 108F. A fan is NOT ENOUGH!
Dani, a marshmallow maker from Sydney, confirmed the weather on Christmas Day is usually hot, but said it was a bit cooler and wetter this year. "We have had rain lately with humidity of 90%," Dani told Bored Panda.
"Because I've grown up with hot Christmases, I'm used to it being portrayed differently in the media. It is strange, though, because we all have large meals with hot, traditional food despite not being the weather for it! Lots of turkey, ham, and baked goods."
On Christmas Eve, many Australians rush to fish markets to buy fresh seafood for Christmas Day. Some like to have the 'traditional' Christmas pudding, but there might also be cold desserts like pavlova and trifle.
Most families try to be home together for Christmas and eat the main meal at lunch. They might have a cold Christmas dinner or a barbecue with seafood such as prawns and lobsters along with the 'traditional English' food. Families normally exchange presents on Christmas Day too.
Depending on the weather, Dani's family either sit outside in the backyard for Christmas lunch or inside with the air conditioning keeping them cool. "There's also lots of fresh seafood like oysters and prawns. Our fish markets are open nonstop in the days leading up to Christmas due to the demand—you can go and buy seafood at 2 am!"
"Carol singing concerts are very popular in Australia," Cooper explained. "Every state capital will have a Carols by Candlelight service/concert and they're broadcast on TV. There are also outdoor Christmas pageants and firework displays, etc."
On Boxing Day, people tend to visit their friends and often have barbecues with them at the beach. To top it all off, there's a famous yacht race from Sydney to Hobart, Tasmania, held on Boxing Day as well.
Now, I don't know if any of the gazillion creatures that can kill you in Australia take the holiday season off, but so far, Christmas sounds like a blast in the land Down Under!
Back to the roots! This is actually how, centuries ago, the first ever Christmas trees in Alsace were put up! People hung them from the ceiling because they had little room in their houses and in order to protect the goodies on the tree from mice.
Drinking 2500 cans of VB is way more ridiculous than making a Christmas tree out of them.
40 degree (Celsius) days is what Christmas is to me! If it was cold, it would feel like the middle of June and not Christmasy at all!
The guy who rates benches should like this one. I hope it has a plaque.
in Argentina too, although tecnically its spring here, but 24C at 1am
I haven't seen a Christmas Beetle like that before except in a greeny iridescent colour.
Too hot for roasts. Oh I couldn't even imagine trying too cook one! It's 42C ffs!!!!!
I'm in Northern Calif. Crab on Christmas Eve is a big tradition for a lot of us. Brought home live or just cooked out of the vat. Yum!
I'm American. What's wrong with seafood/fish for Christmas? Someone please explain?
I still Miss You Australia,Don't you ever change because of something I said!
Canada here, dont like turkey, tried roast beef, no. Settled on seafood arborio rice with green beans. Perfect
Seafood for christmass? ughh thats disgusting. In Czech republic we eat Lakefood ( Carp) pfff imagine eating something from sea :D
HAHAH if that is all you are lucky! Most still choose the winter traditional heavy foods and sleep after eating it..Seafood is only a 'fairly recent' choice for many who wanted to eat outdoors..even use the barbie..
I have to agree...I'm American, married to an Italian, living in France, and for me Xmas is roast turkey or roast beef. Instead, here it's mainly seafood....
Well that’s a simple fix divorce ya Aussie and go back to where you’re from don’t like it here don’t be here! Enough said
When this was on Buzzfeed, people explained that this woman is a bit of a [that word that Aussies are famous for]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Southern Bonus info: Jacinda Ardern was proud of the fact that New Zealanders reacted with hostility when this individual tried to visit here (I didn’t hear about it until a lot later). https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/08/nz-hostile-to-views-of-lauren-southern-and-stefan-molyneux-jacinda-arden.html
Don’t knock it. Tennessean here. I used to celebrate with a lobster and a bunch of seafood like stuffed crab, shrimp and scallops. I used to have my favorite foods for Christmas dinner because it was just me and I could eat whatever I wanted. Now I can’t be bothered at all. A TV dinner works. 🤷♀️
As an Australian, any Christmas movie with snow is automatically American.
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Yup Christmas in the southern hemisphere is hotter than hades. Its lovely, beach, champagne, and swimmimg...
You forgot the Santa Neighbourhood Run, where Santa rides on the back of a fire truck and throws lollies at people! (or is this just in my neighbourhood?) Too bad it was cancelled this year for me :'(
This reminds me a lot of Puerto Rico. Christmas is HUUUUGE there. They make like a month long celebration. Christmas in PR is like six months of the year tbh. 😆 Anyway I made a pact with my fiancé that were moving Christmas to Jan 25 from now on instead, just because it’s colder and more snowy / no package rush / feels more like Christmas / usually people still have lights and decorations still up. Just feels better that way!
Welp, there you are rest of the world! It was weird when I first moved to the land down under but You get used to it
All the pictures with the Koala bears were the best part of this article!
Are you used to having Christmas in summer? asking as a Canadian
I used to work for a craft store and I always thought the "Christmas in July" trend was started for crafters that need to start their work early in the year. Now I wonder: Is Australia where/why Christmas in July actually started?
I got my aussie friend to go through these with me and she agreed and laughed her ass of with EVERY SINGLE ONE XDDD
Yeah, well it's 27 degrees (F) wind is 30 mph with gusts up to 50 , blowing snow , cloudy and gray here. I just can't seem to muster up much sympathy for sunshine and heat. P. S. Bah humbug.
Almost the same in my country, Uruguay, but without the koalas and snakes. So good I hate Christmas anyway :-D
Yup Christmas in the southern hemisphere is hotter than hades. Its lovely, beach, champagne, and swimmimg...
You forgot the Santa Neighbourhood Run, where Santa rides on the back of a fire truck and throws lollies at people! (or is this just in my neighbourhood?) Too bad it was cancelled this year for me :'(
This reminds me a lot of Puerto Rico. Christmas is HUUUUGE there. They make like a month long celebration. Christmas in PR is like six months of the year tbh. 😆 Anyway I made a pact with my fiancé that were moving Christmas to Jan 25 from now on instead, just because it’s colder and more snowy / no package rush / feels more like Christmas / usually people still have lights and decorations still up. Just feels better that way!
Welp, there you are rest of the world! It was weird when I first moved to the land down under but You get used to it
All the pictures with the Koala bears were the best part of this article!
Are you used to having Christmas in summer? asking as a Canadian
I used to work for a craft store and I always thought the "Christmas in July" trend was started for crafters that need to start their work early in the year. Now I wonder: Is Australia where/why Christmas in July actually started?
I got my aussie friend to go through these with me and she agreed and laughed her ass of with EVERY SINGLE ONE XDDD
Yeah, well it's 27 degrees (F) wind is 30 mph with gusts up to 50 , blowing snow , cloudy and gray here. I just can't seem to muster up much sympathy for sunshine and heat. P. S. Bah humbug.
Almost the same in my country, Uruguay, but without the koalas and snakes. So good I hate Christmas anyway :-D
