We hope you have enjoyed our Christmas blog. I have certainly enjoyed researching and writing for it. We will be back next year with more Christmas news, photos, videos and kids activities. A Merry Christmas from Laurelle and Craig at the Christmas Tree Farm: and from myself, Sue Bride, aka Sueblimely: If...

With thanks to YouTube’s Gigolo8 for this wonderful...

I am pleased to introduce a guest post by my friend from Norway, Renny Bakke Amundsen, who is author of the popular blog RennyBA’s Terella: Christmas in Norway brings a lot of traditions, myths, habits and cultural highlights. Remember, we are on top of the northern hemisphere (the capital, Oslo; 60°N)...

Although Australia is the smallest continent, mainland Australia is unofficially the world’s largest island.* To give you some idea of how big it is: England could fit into Australia over 150 times. This means that our weather varies a great deal throughout the country, ranging from a Tropical climate...

In yesterday’s post about the largest Christmas Trees in the world I asked if you knew that Sydney had the largest tree of its type in the world: It is the largest indoor Christmas Tree – a Swarovksi Crystal tree. The 24m high tree tree spans all three floors inside the Queen Victoria Building (QVB)...