Happy Christmas! My guesses are that we’re celebrating Christmas a good 11 hours before most of you. Christmas Eve was quite traditional really, with no less than three trips out to get food. First off was the butchers for crocodile and emu sausages, then the Sydney fishmarket to get prawns (so we can throw another shrimp on the barbie!) and smoked salmon, as it just wouldn’t be Christmas without it. Turns out we are responsible for 0.0001% of Sydney’s Fishmarket sales for Christmas Eve (they sold a total of 700 tonnes in one day!)
We stuck to a typical Aussie Christmas by spending most of it outside (although given the number of Irish in Bondi, you could be forgiven for thinking you were still in the northern hemisphere). There was walking along beaches, playing beach tennis at Coogee, and venturing into the sea at Bondi for a quick paddle. Dinner was of course a barbeque in the park opposite the flat, ending partly because we were stuffed as expected from everyone on the 25th December, but also as the mozzies were tucking into their Christmas dinner!