Where to go this Holiday Season

If you still haven’t figured out where to spend your Christmas, here are some recommended places to ease those holiday blues and make the most of the merriment.

Boston, London, San Juan, Hong Kong, New York City ,Sydney, Salzburg, Pogost, Nuremberg—all offer the best yuletide celebrations; but Reykjavik in Iceland makes it as the number one to go this Christmas where the celebration starts as early as late November.

For a real treat for the tots, take them to Iceland, where local folklore has not one but 13 Santas bearing goodie bags at Christmas parties. The 13 Santas (or jólasveinar, meaning Yule Lads), each with Brothers Grimm-like characteristics such as “the spoon licker” and “the door slammer,” come into town one day at a time starting December 12.

Then there’s the Christmas Village at Hafnarfjördur, a town not far from Reykjavik that is known in Icelandic lore as the home of elves. The Christmas Village is open on every weekend from November 24 until Christmas day. Hafnarfjördur also offers walking tours to supposed elf homesites.”

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Singapore, Next Best Place For Expat Kids

Maybe it’s thanks to the society, Singapore is no doubt one of the best integrated multicultural locations on the planet.  Perhaps it’s because of the hospitality Singaporeans show to expats.  Regardless of why, Singapore has found itself ranked as 2nd place destination in the world for expat children.

“Nine in 10 expat parents living in Singapore felt they had moved to a safer, more childcare-friendly place for their youngsters. Three in four said education standards were better than in their home country (global average 56 percent), while 70 percent felt childcare had improved since moving here (global average 50 percent).”

Moving to another country is already stressful enough, and expats know to take help where they can get it.  And with such high rankings of happy expatriate children living in Singapore, it may become a new kind of hub for families.

Essential Guide For Expat Voters

With the election fever slowly building up, a bigger number of British expats are about to make use of their right to vote. “To be entitled, you have to have registered to vote within the past 15 years. If you were too young to register when you left the UK , your parent or guardian must have been on the electoral register.”

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