Anna is a travel and lifestyle journalist, and author of the travel memoir Departures.
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When I moved from London to Auckland, a Kiwi friend issued the following festive warning: “Just don’t expect Christmas to feel Christmassy. Christmas isn’t Christmassy in Australia or New Zealand.” She was being kind, and wanted to prepare this ignorant Irish migrant for a scorching hot Christmas, one bereft of snow, snowmen, fir trees, sleds and tarts-with-a-heart proffering figgy pudding to plaintive urchins. “Christmassiness” (not “Christmas”, which is
