spudski Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 A thread to share or recommend places you've spent on Xmas day? Good or bad memories or unusual. My favourite has been when I ran Ski Chalets in the French Alps. Proper log cabin chalets, log fires, mountains and snow. Very ' traditional'. Most unusual was on top of Glastonbury Tor with many others, where we all shared items from our hampers. And BBQS at Symonds Yat with various others. Both unusual, but memorable for the fun and friendships with strangers sharing food and drink and stories. Got any worth sharing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 (edited) In Ifrane, Morocco way up in the Atlas mountains Edited December 18, 2023 by BigTone 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 Also, Katherine in Australia's Northern Territory. Owned a building supply business there for a few years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spudski Posted December 18, 2023 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 12 minutes ago, BigTone said: In Ifrane, Morocco way up in the Atlas mountains I stayed overnight in a Berbers house in the Atlas mountains once. An unforgettable experience. It was like going back centuries. Cattle living downstairs, woman making argan oil. Sweet tea, honey and delicious homemade bread. Tagine to die for. And the son was a Snowboard instructor in the winter there and guide in the summer. Lovely people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 And lets not forget Yatton. Visited there once from Nailsea just so I could experience the joys of leaving again. 1 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 3 minutes ago, spudski said: I stayed overnight in a Berbers house in the Atlas mountains once. An unforgettable experience. It was like going back centuries. Cattle living downstairs, woman making argan oil. Sweet tea, honey and delicious homemade bread. Tagine to die for. And the son was a Snowboard instructor in the winter there and guide in the summer. Lovely people. Absolutely. I used to go and stay on a friends family farm in a place called Settat which is south of Casablanca. As you say food is amazing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
italian dave Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 Maybe rename the thread…….Spud and Tone reminisce? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 Premier Inn Newquay seafront. Without going into too much detail didn't want to put anyone out so spent it alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 Antarctica 2009/10 on a Finnish built, Russian owned ice breaker on charter to an American expedition company. From Stanley, in the Falklands around Antarctica coast, with landings at the "Golden Age" huts, to New Zealand. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 6 hours ago, BigTone said: And lets not forget Yatton. Visited there once from Nailsea just so I could experience the joys of leaving again. I'm actually spending Christmas day in Yatton this year... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 27 minutes ago, elhombrecito said: I'm actually spending Christmas day in Yatton this year... Sorry 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 2 hours ago, elhombrecito said: I'm actually spending Christmas day in Yatton this year... Cleeve for me then Bradley Stoke on Boxing Day. Attention seeker that's me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erithacus Posted December 18, 2023 Report Share Posted December 18, 2023 The BRI. Broke my arm as a kid and the 23rd and spent Christmas Morning in the wards before being sent home for dinner, arm in a sling. One good memory was that the nurses came around on Christmas Eve singing carols. Those were the days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Med/MadHatter Posted December 24, 2023 Report Share Posted December 24, 2023 Worst Christmas Day for me was 2017, North of Fort McMurray, woke up with my head and neck feeling like it was on fire, went to medics at work and it turned out to be shingles, the pain got worse over the following days along with the leaking pustules etc. Best bit about it was that it was -45C outside so when the pain got too much I just doused them with water and went outside to literally freeze my head. Best one for me now is just any time I get to spend with the Mrs and our kids/ grandkids 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red-Robbo Posted December 24, 2023 Report Share Posted December 24, 2023 The most exotic I've ever got was Bournemouth... I always* have a family one in Somerset. Don't do Christmas holidays. * Bar the BoMo excursion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe jordans teeth Posted December 24, 2023 Report Share Posted December 24, 2023 Thailand for me but a hot Christmas isn’t the same I don’t care what anyone says Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted December 25, 2023 Report Share Posted December 25, 2023 The best was at home , as a kid. The most unusual was Bondi beach. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northsomersetred Posted December 25, 2023 Report Share Posted December 25, 2023 (edited) I spent 2 Austral summer seasons, 89-90 & 90-91, working in Antarctica for the British Antarctic survey building the Halley 5 scientific research station. Then spent Xmas and New Year from 91-95 working in the offshore oil and gas industry. 7 consecutive Xmas and New Years away from home. Edited December 25, 2023 by northsomersetred 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted December 25, 2023 Report Share Posted December 25, 2023 On 18/12/2023 at 19:29, elhombrecito said: I'm actually spending Christmas day in Yatton this year... It’ll be lonely this Christmas 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ralphindevon Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 I spent one Christmas Day morning at the war remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) It had been busy with long queues leading up to Christmas and a local told us to try Christmas Day which we did with no queuing. Not the cheeriest, most festive of activities but interesting all the same. Followed by an incredibly hot curry for Christmas lunch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redysteadygo Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 30 minutes ago, ralphindevon said: I spent one Christmas Day morning at the war remnants museum in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) It had been busy with long queues leading up to Christmas and a local told us to try Christmas Day which we did with no queuing. Not the cheeriest, most festive of activities but interesting all the same. Followed by an incredibly hot curry for Christmas lunch. On a tour of Vietnam our guide always referred to Ho Chi Minh City as Saigon. In a quiet place, to avoid putting him on the spot in public, I asked him why " was it a cultural/political thing etc "No" he replied "it's easier to say". 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted December 27, 2023 Report Share Posted December 27, 2023 Lake Tahoe was pretty special. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixtyseconds Posted December 28, 2023 Report Share Posted December 28, 2023 The Chillage. Mbabane. Swaziland. The Chillage had large communal bowls of a green herb that you mixed with another brown herb from another communal bowl in a thatched hut. These herbs were placed in a big pipe to make smoke. Later in the thatched hut those who had been mixing the green herbs herbs with the brown herbs from the communal bowls to make smoke with the big pipe were joined by a procession of helpful unmarried topless females .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted December 29, 2023 Report Share Posted December 29, 2023 On 24/12/2023 at 11:52, joe jordans teeth said: Thailand for me but a hot Christmas isn’t the same I don’t care what anyone says I’ve just done a warm (ish) one in Florida and agree, regularly forgot it was Xmas and it was just a bit odd. Great time, but it’s not “Christmassy”. I’m not really a Xmas person though so a nice change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted December 29, 2023 Report Share Posted December 29, 2023 Xmas 2011, week 2 of our 5 week tour down the West Coast of North America, we were in a log cabin on the Washington state coast. To say it was isolated is an understatement, I don't think we saw another person between a visit to the local store on Xmas eve and the fuel station 3 days later before our drive through Oregon to Nevada. These pics will give you an idea of just how quiet it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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