January 2018 - 2Base Online Magazine (English)
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OUR BLOG<br />
Who celebrates christmas in Alanya?<br />
The obvious answer to the question is<br />
"everyone that lives here does"...<br />
For most people Christmas is more of an event<br />
than a religious thing meaning that it is - but of<br />
course in its own way - celebrated by everyone<br />
even in a Muslim country like Turkey.<br />
Also no shop in Turkey is blind to the<br />
commercial aspect of Christmas so currently all<br />
shopping is accompanied by Christmas<br />
decorations and jingle bells.<br />
Some even claim that Santa actually comes from<br />
Turkey and not the North pole, Finland, Greenland<br />
or anywhere else.<br />
With that said celebrating Christmas in Alanya<br />
is of course very different than celebrating it<br />
at home. The special Christmas mood that you<br />
find in your home country can not be replicated<br />
anywhere, no matter how hard you try.<br />
People who choose to travel to Alanya during the<br />
holidays do so because they want to get away<br />
from all the Christmas activities at home, so they<br />
surely do not mind.<br />
And all of us living permanently here in Alanya do<br />
not have same expectations to Christmas as we<br />
would normally have.<br />
Instead we make Christmas our own way and try<br />
to mix some of the traditions we know from home<br />
with the opportunities that are available in Alanya.<br />
Most of the Christmas food you can actually cook<br />
more or less like you would do it at home. Some<br />
ingredients might not exactly be the same, but it<br />
is more or less possible to cook at full Christmas<br />
meal just like the one your mother would have<br />
cooked for you.<br />
Unless you want to drive to the mountains and<br />
cut down a tree, you might have to settle for a<br />
plastic one and you for sure wont get any snow.<br />
It might get cold, windy and rainy but snow is<br />
definitely never going to happen in Alanya.<br />
Plenty of restaurants offer Christmas dinners and<br />
entertainment, but we recommend staying at<br />
home since we believe that Christmas is best<br />
celebrated at home.<br />
In the end it is all about what works for you but<br />
our best recommendation is to take the best of<br />
your home Christmas, adjust it to living abroad<br />
and then spice it up with what Alanya has to offer.<br />
One of our favorite traditions is to follow Santa<br />
deliver his presents all over the world via the<br />
googlofficial Santa Tracker<br />
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