Honolulu, Hawaii There are many sporting traditions associated with the holiday season, but few of these hold a candle to the American obsession with football. From Thanksgiving through New Year, no holiday celebrated in America is complete without at least one football game; in 2002, even Christmas succumbed with the establishment of the Hawaii Bowl. Although professional … [Read more...]
BOXING DAY TEST
Melbourne, Australia From football in America to ice hockey in Canada and Europe, team sporting events have become a major part of festivities on the day after Christmas. In the Commonwealth countries of the old British Empire, the sport dejeur of Boxing Day is Cricket. The most famous of these Christmas cricket matchups, and the world’s largest annual Christmas sports … [Read more...]
ADELAIDE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT & MAGIC CAVE
Adelaide, Australia The Adelaide Christmas Pageant is the largest annual Christmas celebration south of the Equator and, along with its counterparts in New York and Toronto among the most popular. The Pageant, beloved by Australian children of all ages, is of special Christmas historical interest as it ends at the famous Magic Cave, one of the world’s oldest annual Santa … [Read more...]
SANTA CLAUS PUB CRAWL
Wollongong, Australia One of the world’s newest holiday traditions, and one of the fastest growing in popularity around the world, is the Santa Claus Pub Crawl. Based on the traditional pub crawls that have evolved in former Commonwealth countries over the last few decades, Santa Claus Pub Crawls usually combine a charitable event of some sort with a generous indulgence of … [Read more...]
SHRINE OF FATHER DAMIEN
Molokai, Hawaii Jozef De Veuster, better known as Father Damien, may be America’s best known saint, at least outside of the United States. A Catholic missionary to Hawaii in the 19th century, Father Damien became renowned for his work at one of the world’s most famous leper colonies. His ministry lasted throughout much of the second half of the 19th century before he … [Read more...]
