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Christmas means different things to different people in different places. We asked our staff about how they spent their most memorable Christmas or New Year's Eve around the world - here is what they had to say...

Find out how Christmas is celebrated around the world and see where else we've been.

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Austria - Salzburg
- Author: Rachel Ricks
Picturesque and relaxed, Salzburg barely feels like a city. Narrow, pedestrianised lanes connect elegant squares, and all the time the 15th-century fortress peeks over the rooftops from her hilltop position.
Australia - Sydney
- Author: Susannah Roberts
My best Christmas Eve on memory was in Darling Harbour, Sydney, in Australia. My friends and I spent it sitting on the grass...
A British Christmas – returning home
- Author: Tim Cleary
Tim Cleary, from Stanfords in Covent Garden, reminisces on – and looks forward to – the traditional British Christmas. Log fires, cosy pubs and big family dinners are worth travelling back home for – however hectic the journey, he says…
A French Christmas
- Author: Violaine Sabot
Violaine Sabot, from Stanfords' Covent Garden store, describes the Christmas she’ll miss this year in France... "It’s going to be the first time I will spend Christmas away from home. I didn’t think I’d miss it that much..."
Christmas in Honduras
- Author: Jenny Savage
When I was planning my year-long round the world trip, I took a lot of time trying to decide where I should spend Christmas. Obviously I would be away from friends and family - did I want to be somewhere familiar and comforting or did I want to do something completely different? I chose the latter...
Canada - Ontario
- Author: Douglas Schatz
For Christmas last year I went home to visit my family in Ontario, Canada and I specifically requested that they provide a true Canadian Christmas - that is a very cold and white one.
Denmark - Copenhagen
- Author: Chris Anguish
I was invited over for a party at my friend's neighbour's flat. I don't get excited about New Year's Eve, but a change is as good as a rest. Anyway I got drunk along with a bunch of charming Danes...
Egypt - Luxor
- Author: Margaret Ross
Most memorable Christmas Day? Luxor, 1974. Up very early to hire bicycles and cross the Nile on a rickety ferry. Leisurely cycle ride across the fields, past the Colossi of Memnon, the Ramesseum and Hatshepsut's Temple, and up to the Valley of the Kings.
England - Somerset
- Author: Donna Wright
Celebrating Christmas in Somerset used to be a rowdy affair. Wassailing the apple tree was a custom that was used in parts of the West Country to bring good spirits. The word wassail is from the Anglo-Saxon word, wes hal, meaning `be whole`.
Finland
- Author: Aino Lapila
Have you always wondered what Christmas is like in Finland? Here we go. My family celebrates a very traditional Finnish Christmas. The Finns celebrate it on the 24th instead of the 25th.