Home for Christmas?

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With Christmas looming so close on the horizon we’ve almost tripped over it, many travellers are thinking of – if not actually almost at - home. Where exactly home is, however, slips through your fingers like chocolate melting on a summer’s day in Seville.

There is No Place Like Home
Cate, from the Caffeinated Traveller, remembers Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as she prepares to pack up in sunny Florida and head back to New Zealand for the big day. She reflects on sloppy and soppy, supersizing, delinquent taxes and more when thinking about her adopted US of A, which will soon become her new home (once the paperwork puzzle is complete.)

If you can’t get back…

For now, Twenty-Something Travel is back in her native Washington DC but she reminisces through her holidays (translate Christmas or maybe Thanksgiving) curled up alone in Heathrow Airport or cavorting through the streets of London with three Australians and a santa hat…She then offers up some tips on How to Have a (Non-Miserable) Time Away From Home.

So, where am I?

I’ve certainly missed Christmas through my travels, both in the emotional and physical sense (one year I was on a flight as it crossed the International Date Line: Christmas? What Christmas?)

This year, however, as of an hour or so ago, I’m home. And I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone who reads Inside the Travel Lab a very Merry Christmas. It’s been an eventful year, with some amazing highs and heart-breaking lows, but I’d like to say thank you for stopping by and contributing to the good times.

THANK YOU – AND A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

You’re not at home because you’re working?

An even bigger thank you. Here’s to the doctors, nurses, police force and radiographers, the blood transfusion service, car rescue service, airport staff, radio staff, electricity and water boards and the many, many more I’ve missed out here.

And if your Christmas isn’t feeling very merry?

Don’t despair, you’re not alone. You are never alone. Connect online, or to speak to a human voice, contact the Samaritans. Find a local branch here.