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23rd Dec 2014

Surviving Home For Christmas: Seven Things You’ll Definitely Encounter On Your Travels

Are you ready?

Rebecca McKnight

“Driving home for Christmas, I can’t wait to see their faces…”

For so many of us, the time has come. Whether you’re traveling by plane, train or automobile, between today and tomorrow thousands of us will make the pilgrimage back to the mother land. It doesn’t matter if you live half a mile away or half a world away, it’s a special time for all of us.

Until, that is, you actually begin the journey. WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS?

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Crowdsourced smells

Sure you’re a big shot up in Dublin, but nothing brings you back to earth like public transport at Christmas. Especially when you get stuck beside that guy on the bus.

Emotion overload

You’ve booked the flight, you spend hours on the plane, as exhaustion kicks in thoughts of family are the only flicker of hope that keeps you going. And what happens when the sliding doors open into the arrivals hall? Some wagon from TV3 sticks a microphone under your nose as you embrace your loved one. OF COURSE you cry… assault is illegal.

Singalong songs

The bit where ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ comes on when you’re driving home for Christmas. Wonderful isn’t it?

In a jam

The bit where he sings ‘Top to toe in tail lights”. Oh yeah. The traffic jam. Suddenly driving home for Christmas isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Quinn_Crying

There’s always one thing…

The further you have to travel, the further you have to go back when you realise you forgot your Godson’s present.

The warm welcome

You finally make it home, the returning hero, the prodigal daughter. And you know what family really means when someone hands you a dishcloth.

Holiday heart attack

Flying abroad for the holidays? ………….KEVIN!!!!!!!!!!