This Week's Meaningless Topic (#68) (Dec 24)

[Rodger Pettichord]

 

[NOTE. Tomorrow's Friday is Christmas Eve and many of us will be busy with holiday responsibilities. Therefore, I'm posting this week's topic a little early to give everyone time to respond. Ho Ho Ho!]

 

Hi all. I've been nostalgic this week, thinking about past Christmases spent far from home. Forum participants are widely traveled and no doubt have many interesting memories of Christmases celebrated in strange places. So this week, let's celebrate Christmases we spent far, far away.

 

THIS WEEK'S MEANINGLESS TOPIC: 

A. Where did you spend  your hottest Christmas? 

 

B. Where did you spend your coldest Christmas?

 

C. Where did you spend your wettest Christmas?

 

D. Where did you spend your highest Christmas? (no drug stories allowed )

 

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL THE MEANINGLESS TOPIC DENIZENS, AND A HEALTHY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

[BradB]

All of above in Spokane , I always stayed close to home and let the amateur traveler’s do there thing during the holidays . Merry Christmas to you Rodger and your family . 

[Sniper31]

A. Desert of Saudi Arabia

B. Paktika Province mountains in Afghanistan

C. Tennessee

D. See answer for B

 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

 

Landon

[Rodger Pettichord]

Hottest-- (and most humid) Phan Rang, Vietnam

Coldest-- Keflavik, Iceland (Yowsa!)

Wettest-- Buckley, Washington (we lived on outskirt of Rainier's Rain Forest)

Highest (and most tiring)-- cancelled flight in Denver, Colorado

[W2DR]

Hottest-- With Donna Jean

Coldest-- With Patti Ann

Wettest-- With Annette Louise

Highest (and most tiring)-- With Dale What's His Name

[lifejogger]

I have spent  all of my Christmas in Oklahoma or Texas, in all kinds of weather.

[TerribleT]

1. Darwin

2. Brisbane

3. Boku, Bougainville, TPNG

4. Namanula Ridge, Rabaul, TPNG

[gumbypickett]

1 Tasmania

2 Tasmania

3Tasmania

4 What was the question?

Have a great christmas Roger.

cheers

Gumby

[wain71]

2 - Berlin

3 - UK Southwest (usual grey damp, much like forecast for this year)

4 - can't say....was happy though...

[flyingfish55]

Hottest: Bangkok

Coldest: St Petersburg (Russia, not Florida LOL)

Wettest: Somewhere in the UK

Highest:  Islamabad

 

Seasons greetings to all.

[John York]

Hottest: Kuala Lumpur, Malaya

Coldest: Horsham, Sussex (Snow 3' high everywere that year)

Wettest: London's East End (All roads flooded that year)

Highest: Basingstoke, Hampshire

 

Happy Christmas to all of you.  We've had to cancel our's this year due to covid!

[Aussieron]

Perth, Western australia  Christmas day forcast:  43 c

                                           Boxing day                  :  44c 

The hottest ever recorded, for Chrismas day in Perth !!!! Outlook for the next week similar temps

                                 

[boetie]

Nice one Roger.

Hottest in Brisbane (or it felt the hottest, very humid) late 90's. Don't know exact year.

Coldest in Rovaniemi Finland 2010. -19.

Wettest, Tweed Heads, very often. Hot and wet

Highest...spent my first 17yrs of my life in Harare Zimbabwe (formerly Salisbury) at 5000ft

Merry Christmas Rodger!

Thank you for your valuable contributions!

Cheers

Graeme

 

 

[Ken Q]

Hottest probably my long time home, Long Island NY

 

Coldest Moorhead, MN, also highest at about 1000 ft MSL

Wettest. Either at home, or Southampton, England.

[Rob Abernathy]

1. hottest   Corpus Christi TX

2. Coldest    Adak, AK

3. Coldest    see #2

4. Wettest    Home in N Calif (Redding)    expecting snow on Christmas day here, but still not as cold as Adak, AK!

 

Merry Christmas all  

[Taph]

1. Hottest  Borneo

2. Coldest North Rhine Westphalia, crates of beer on the balcony froze solid

3. Wettest Belize   

4. Highest Mount Troodos in Cyprus

[flyingfish55]

Taph,

 

With those locations I assume a Forces man? I completely forgot I spent Christmas in Belmopan in 1981 then departed a couple of days later to spend Hogmany in Beirut. Like you now a man of Kent.

[Rodger Pettichord]

4 hours ago, flyingfish55 said:

Taph,

 

With those locations I assume a Forces man? I completely forgot I spent Christmas in Belmopan in 1981 then departed a couple of days later to spend Hogmany in Beirut. Like you now a man of Kent.

Hey FF55, thanks for teaching me a new thing. I had never heard of Hogmanay before, but now I can "celebrate New Years in the Scottish manner." I am going to impress friends and neighbors here by wishing everyone a Happy Hogmanay this year .

[flyingleaf]

Hmmm, the hottest Christmas I spend? Well I guess it was the one were I forgot to buy a present for she who must be obeyed. Boy, I tell yer, that was hot. Never repeated that one again.Way too hot for this guy. Beers and fuget about it. Cheers k

[flyingfish55]

If that had been in my household the atmosphere would have been extremely chilly and I would have been frozen out for at least several days.

 

[Taph]

Flyingfish55 you got that right, I probably knew a couple people you met in Belmopan, though I don't think the governor knew who I was. 

[John Heaton]

On 12/25/2021 at 2:43 AM, Taph said:

1. Hottest  Borneo

2. Coldest North Rhine Westphalia, crates of beer on the balcony froze solid

3. Wettest Belize   

4. Highest Mount Troodos in Cyprus

Taph - absolutely nothing to do with the question - But !!

[Taph]

Hi John,

 I recognise the jimmy and the aerial farm behind you, A few of us went skiing up on the mountain and then drove the landrover down to the beach for a swim in the sea.

Looking at the gaiters and boots your wearing you were there before me, my time was 1974-75

[boetie]

23 hours ago, John Heaton said:

Taph - absolutely nothing to do with the question - But !!

 

1 minute ago, Taph said:

Hi John,

 I recognise the jimmy and the aerial farm behind you, A few of us went skiing up on the mountain and then drove the landrover down to the beach for a swim in the sea.

Looking at the gaiters and boots your wearing you were there before me, my time was 1974-75

Just shows what a small world it is gents, amazing!

[John Heaton]

5 minutes ago, Taph said:

Hi John,

 I recognise the jimmy and the aerial farm behind you, A few of us went skiing up on the mountain and then drove the landrover down to the beach for a swim in the sea.

Looking at the gaiters and boots your wearing you were there before me, my time was 1974-75

G'day Taph - 1956 - 1958 - and you were right about the ski-ing and a swim in the sea after

When they let Makarios out of jail in 57 - we spent many happy hours ski-ing on Olympus

I was stationed at The Episkopi cantonement after Suez.

Yesterday - I bought Larnaca airport on M/Place and took the Stearman for a flight up to Troodos

very clear