Short and sweet post, simply the Christmas Day menus from the Pacific Jewel cruise. The first image is the lunchtime menu from The Waterfront dining room and the second two images are from The Pantry. Follow @paula_from_nz Continue reading P&O Pacific Jewel Christmas Day Menus
It wouldn’t be Walt Disney World without extensive shopping experiences and the Germany Pavilion is no exception. Apparently in Germany they celebrate Christmas year round which is why they have a number of Christmas trees and dozens of decorations to … Continue reading Shopping at the Germany Pavilion at Epcot
Since we are staying in Queenstown, not far from the Arrowtown turn off, we decided to take a stroll along part of the Lake Hayes walkway. If you are familiar with the area, we parked at Bendemeer Bay and walked … Continue reading Lake Hayes Walkway – near Arrowtown, New Zealand
Although we don’t celebrate Christmas, we did celebrate being on a work expense account. Dear work, thank you for paying for this most of this delicious food while we are on call in Queenstown for the week 😉 From left to … Continue reading An atheist Christmas feast
While humans are on call in Queenstown for Christmas week, the doglets get to go too – on their first long holiday! Woohoo! Very excited. As soon as we left the suburbs of Christchurch and started travelling faster, doglets were … Continue reading Doglets go on their Christmas hols to Queenstown
No, not that “C” word! I mean Christmas! There are typically two common responses when I tell people I don’t celebrate Christmas. The first, complete shock, horror and confusion – how could that possibly be the case? Because clearly EVERYONE … Continue reading The “C” word
As I’m literally staying next to this church, I thought I’d pop in and visit. St. Joseph’s Catholic Church on Melbourne Street in Queenstown was built in 1898 to replace an earlier one on Church Street. I can only imagine … Continue reading St. Joseph’s Catholic Church – Queenstown, New Zealand
Walt Disney World is a magic and through November and December when its decorated to Christmas, it is great to explore and see all the different Christmas trees and holiday decorations. A small sample of our tour of the resort … Continue reading Christmas around the World … Walt Disney World that is.
Follow my blog with Bloglovin If you are visiting Walt Disney World during the holiday season, one of the things that is a do not miss at Hollywood Studios Theme Park is the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. Last … Continue reading Christmas at Walt Disney World – The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights
And speaking of Christmas, it always seemed a bit weird to me that the majority of references we see are for a northern hemisphere Christmas. Here in the southern hemisphere, Christmas is our summer. A traditional Kiwi Christmas is often … Continue reading A very Kiwi Christmas
We don’t celebrate Christmas. Christmas holds no particular affection for me and my parents don’t bother with it. My partner is neutral to the whole affair. The problem is, all the well meaning friends that think because you don’t celebrate it … Continue reading Escaping for Christmas
So never having been a great fan of the whole crap circus that seems to come along with Christmas, this year we decided to go to Laos instead. We politely declined all invites with a “sorry, but we are going on holiday”, while secretly thinking we dodged yet another bullet. So why Laos? Because it’s not somewhere we had been, I have heard of very few people that had been there and most importantly, we were able to book a tour and flights fairly near to Christmas. We chose to travel with Peregrine, we have done a few adventure tours … Continue reading A Laos-y Christmas
