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The Reason I Book My Flights

Flying home to Ireland from Germany for Christmas feels like the best thing in the world. Although I love Munich카지노 게임 컬렉션�s overpopulated Christmas Markets, and the aromatic glühwein which is so sweet yet so delicious that I drink it to the point where I feel like a giant gummy bear has impaled my stomach with an equally giant candy-cane. I long for Ireland, where Christmas presents are brought, more logically, by a fat, bearded man coming down a chimney rather than an infant Jesus busting through the window like a thief in the night. Ireland, where the heavy commercialism of British and American television means that Christmas only begins when the Coca-Cola advertisement interrupts Eastenders, Coronation Street or The Late, Late Show. The Irish Twittersphere goes off like the 4th of July when this happens.  

At Christmas, Ireland is at its most beautiful and romantic, and Dublin becomes a place broken by the sky. The cold, short foggy days are accompanied by jubilant songs like Slade카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Merry Christmas Everybody카지노 게임 컬렉션�, while during the long, clear nights, the soft crooning of Shane McGowan singing 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Fairytale of New York카지노 게임 컬렉션� follows you down the streets and the darkness is held at bay by hundreds of lights, breaking the city into great blackness so close above and a sublime orangey-yellow glow so tightly around you. On Christmas Eve, Bono busks on Grafton Street for charity, followed by countless gifted amateur musicians, who are either on their break from school, or are old and only play or sing at family parties after a few drinks and the constant pestering of relatives.

The Trip

That카지노 게임 컬렉션�s why I book my flights nearly every year. There is no place on earth like Ireland at Christmas. I think the main difference is that people aren카지노 게임 컬렉션�t completely overcome by merriment. Instead, everyone young and old, seems to be infected by the wonderment and nervous excitement of children waiting for their presents.

As an expat, however, I don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t get the opportunity to enjoy the atmosphere or the beautiful city that much. Because Christmas at home is like a trip home at any other time of the year, but on crack. Everything just happens so fast. But I suppose when you return to your country of residence and look back, it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a bit like childbirth; you just seem to forget the pain.

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And then it starts, and you카지노 게임 컬렉션�re sucked into the chaos like a provincial cow in a hurricane. The thing about Christmas is, while everyone is off work, they all have things to do. So when I go home, this means I have to meet people for lunch in the city center, after spending two hours in traffic for a forty-minute journey and then meet someone else after. Or, since Dublin is a small space, you meet someone you haven카지노 게임 컬렉션�t seen for years on the street and you try speaking to them about what you카지노 게임 컬렉션�ve both been up to in the elephant stampede of holiday-shoppers, the conversation only stopping as forceful bodies push you both in opposite directions and you shout 카지노 게임 컬렉션�yea, best of luck!카지노 게임 컬렉션� from what has become the other end of the street.

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The Difference

There is a huge difference between being an expat at home during Christmas and being an expat at home during any other time of the year. The first few days are comparable, but in mid to late December, it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s just the eye of the storm. While on a regular trip, you have the time to get bored and think of what you카지노 게임 컬렉션�d be doing back in your country of residence, at Christmas you don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have that time. Everything seems to happen at super speed and things blend into one another. You just don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t have time to think of the differences and even the famed 카지노 게임 컬렉션�reverse culture shock카지노 게임 컬렉션� is fleeting.

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And I think some part of you acknowledges that. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s the best time to look back on, because it is so special. The bad sides of home like small arguments, terrible public transport, awful queues in the shopping market, etc. can just be put down to being the hectic Christmas period. And the good sides are even better because everyone is in a good mood. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s probably why most people go home then, rather than Easter.