Things we haven’t seen in England

One aspect that we both really like about Australia is that nothing really happened about Christmas until 1st December. Even now some shopping centres are not playing Christmas songs although some stores are. There are small displays not the huge displays that take over the whole shop. Some houses have strings of lights our baubles on trees but there is not the overkill that we see in Calne.

All in all we have found Australia far more laid back about Christmas even now compared to England when we left in mid-October.

Therefore we were not expecting to see Father Christmas on a jet ski on the river Brisbane or a bus decorated like Santa’s grotto. Very unexpected.Read more