Which is Better Christmas in Aus/NZ or Ireland?

dSTAR

Not sure if this has been asked before so I will just ask it again. Basically I want to know if you prefer Christmas in Australia/New Zealand or Christmas in Ireland?

Personally I have many good memories of childhood Christmases in Ireland as a kid and still think that it is so much more real and intense than what passes as Christmas in Australia.

Whats your thoughts? Vote and give your reasons which one you prefer over the other and WHY.

Xavi6

It doesn't feel like Christmas over here with all the sun. I loved the drunken stumble home from the boozer on Christmas in the freezing cold but using my jacket to cover the glasses I'd just stroked.

There isn't the same general buzz around the festival, probably because a hell of a lot of people don't celebrate it.

Most of my best mates and family are back home so that's a tick in Ireland's favour.

Having said all that, Christmas is ridiculously overrated and commercialised anyway so I'll go for the last option. Bah humbug.

dSTAR

I GuanYin wrote: »

I loved the drunken stumble home from the boozer on Christmas in the freezing cold but using my jacket to cover the glasses I'd just stroked...

Are they sitting alongside the the tall beer glasses you stroked the other night?

rod flanders

Christmas in Ireland is better because Santa doesnt visit Australia. Its too hot for him.

Mahatma coat

bah Humbug,hate it eitherway

the dee

I haven't had a Christmas in Australia yet so I can't decide. I'm hoping this will be good but I am getting a bit homesick. It's my first Christmas away from home and the only person I really know in Melbourne is my boyfriend His family's in Brisbane and we're going up for New Year's but it's not the same

dSTAR

I was in my local supermarket this afternoon and I couldn't help overhearing the conversation the lady in front was having with the cashier. It went something like this...

Cashier: Hi how are you today?
Lady: Good
Cashier: That's good. Getting all set for Christmas then?
Lady: Yes, but it doesn't really feel like Christmas
Cashier: Everyone seems to be saying the same thing this year
Lady: Its probably because its not hot enough
Me:

watna

Ireland, ftw.

It does not feel like Christmas here - hot christmas is wrong. I feel so unchristmassy this year.

slipss

I can't really say, this will be my first christmass in Oz. But it doesn't really feel like christmass here at the minute and usually back home I'd have a good christmass buzz going by now. Agree with what other people are saying, it just can't feel christmassy in this weather. I did just get back from the pub after having a few pints with 6 prison gaurds that were all wearing santy hats though.....but that was more creepy and sureal than christmassy.

dSTAR

slipss wrote: »

I did just get back from the pub after having a few pints with 6 prison gaurds that were all wearing santy hats though.....but that was more creepy and sureal than christmassy.

Holy freakshow!

What the hell are you doing with prison guards? Something you want to get off your chest?

slipss

Heh, no man just a twist of fate. I went to the toilet and when I came back they were sitting at my table having their christmass work drink and one of them was after stealing my newspaper, so they insisted on buying me a few pints.

dSTAR

slipss wrote: »

...one of them was after stealing my newspaper, so they insisted on buying me a few pints.

So you let them know that stealing a newspaper is a jailable offence and soaked them for a few pints. Good work my friend, very good work!

population

Didnt enjoy my Xmas Oz experiences it must be said. Hot Xmases feel weird if you are from a cold climate, though conversley if you are from a hot climate, then only hot xmases feel right.

This will be my wife's 6th Xmas in Ireland (she is a Melbourne girl), and she still cant get used to it. She does make one very valid point however, in Australia, if you get a bike for Xmas, you can cycle it around the streets well into the night, but here if you get a bike, by 4 it is dark wet and cold so you cant really get the immediate enjoyment out of it

I do really miss the Xmases from my childhood but the older I am getting, the more underwhelmed by the experience I am getting. We are talking about going back to Oz next year for a good long stretch and I am personally becoming more open to the idea of hot Xmases from here on in.

Kryx

I prefered it in Aus (not Oz), its less forced and relaxed.