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Where have you spent Christmas overseas?
I'm spending Christmas in New Zealand with family this year, and Auckland's weather has dawned fine so it promises to be a day of wearing shorts and flip-flops around the barbecue. For northern hemisphere readers that probably sounds pretty exotic, but down here it's just what we're used to. 
More exotic have been a few other Christmases that I've spent on the road.
- In the Vietnamese port town of Nha Trang and attending midnight mass on Christmas Eve at the local Catholic cathedral - all the familiar carols like Silent Night but sung in Vietnamese
- In the Indian city of Panjim in Goa and being entertained on a karaoke disco riverboat cruise by scores of locals wearing fake Santa beards
- Christmas night in Penang in Malaysia, trying to find Fairytale of New York by The Pogues at a karaoke bar. The following morning we felt the earthquake that caused the Boxing Day tsunami and saw the wave roll into Penang's beaches
What are your memories of Christmas in a foreign country?
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LadyExpat (Nancie) Dec 27th 2007 7:01PM
My first Christmas in Asia was spent in Thailand at a beach side resort just outside of Hua Hin. Christmas number 2 was spent in Hong Kong. Number 3 was in Seoul (ugh), and the last three have been spent in Taiwan. This year we spent Christmas day in Taroka Gorge.