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Festivity
- Christmas in Australia |
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Christmas
in Christmas month December comes in Australia
with the warmth of summer and
instead of white, snowy scenery. Australia is
filled with blue skies and sunshine and intense
heat sometimes up to 35 degrees Centigrade and
hence Christmas in Australia
differs from the Western countries.
Christmas day December 25
falls on the middle of the long summer school
holidays. Most Australian schools close
for Summer Vacation a week before Christmas for
the summer break and recommence after Australia
Day on 26 January.
Many families choose their Christmas, out of doors
and going to cool tourist destinations. Christmas
dinner may be a picnic in the woods or
on the beach. Meals mainly centered on the traditional
Hams, Turkeys and Plum Pudding.
Often these dishes are cooked earlier and served
cold. Salads and other summer
foods like cold custard, ice cream or cream and
fresh fruit, and various versions of the
festive ice cream pudding
have also become popular in Christmas
menu. Carols singing
in candlelight and decorate the exterior
homes with special lights and celebrate Christmas
with friends and neighbors also very popular in
Australia.
Most homes have a Christmas
tree and many people now having a pine
tree growing in a pottery. Father
Christmas -Santa- is also the part of the
Christmas celebration. Australian shops
and homes are decorated with colourful
and bright Christmas decorations and giant living
Christmas trees and live Father Christmas available
for a chat with the children or for a photo.
A Christmas Carols held in Candlelight, where
people gather, usually outdoors, to sing carols
on Christmas Eve
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famous celebration is the Adelaide
Christmas Pageant. This parade
is the largest of its kind in the world, attracting
huge crowds of over 400,000 people. The pageant
parade is staged in early November every
year, usually on a Saturday morning, marking the
start of the Christmas season. It comprises a
procession of floats, bands,
clowns, dancing groups, and walking performers,
all culminating in the arrival of Santa Claus.
Special events are held on Bondi
Beach in Sydney, often involving a turkey
barbecue, and such humorous
stunts as a fake Santa dressed in a Santa
suit surfing in to appear to the crowd.
The Boxing Day one
day after Christmas day is celebrated as in Australia
on December 26.The day is to remember an old tradition
when employers boxed gifts for their workers on
the day after Christmas. On Boxing Day at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground,
the Australian spend watching the cricket test
match and the beginning of the Sydney to Hobart
Yacht race on Sydney
Harbour some times referred as 'Blue
water Classic'.
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