If the holiday pressure or the weather have you wishing you could run away from home, you might enjoy these two different perspectives on travelling during the holiday season.

Surfing Santas.  Travelling student Philip Kirkbride adjusts to the seasonal switch of being in Australia at Christmas time, and learns about some Aussie traditions.  “While the traditional English turkey dinner is common for Christmas day, the uniquely Aussie Boxing Day BBQ is commonly held the following day. Surfing or water skiing is a great way to turn off those extra Christmas calories.”  Christmas in Oz, December 12, 2014.

Returning home to find it.  Darjeeling Jones develops an appreciation for his new home of Winnipeg on a trip to New York City.  “It was on Flatbush Avenue, in Brooklyn, though, that the epiphany hit me.  The sights and sounds of that street invaded my senses and buoyed my heart.  The smells from Caribbean and African restaurants.  The store windows packed with funky fashions, wild wigs, amazing produce. ”  Porkpie Hat—A Tale of Three Cities, January 18, 2019.