Liti, Jørgen, Allan, and Henrik Lissner plan to spend Christmas Day in the Philippines visiting Liti’s ancestral home, the famous rice terraces of Mt. Banaue, the beautiful beach at Boracay, a few historical sites, and shopping at the malls in Manila. Then we’ll come back to Dhaka and spend New Year’s Day at home or at the Sonargaon (if they will serve cheese fondue, one of our favourite dishes), before Allan goes back to Toronto. -- Liti Lissner

I will be in Japan for Christmas. I last spent Christmas in Japan four years ago, when my youngest child was two years old. He does not know about Japanese New Year. I like the traditional New Year in Kyoto and modern Kobe’s Christmas lights. I will take some photographs of Christmas and New Year in Japan. -- Yuko Nakamura

It is going to be truly a season of celebration for us this winter, spending time in the United States with our four children, who live in four different states. We plan to leave Dhaka for New Hampshire in time for a New England style American Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner with our eldest daughter and her family. The next stop is New York where we celebrate Eid with our youngest daughter, her husband and our three-year old grandson. Between Eid and Christmas, we plan to go on a seven-day cruise in Gulf of Mexico with two of our children and four grand children. It will take us from Florida to the islands of Costa Maya and Grand Cayman. At Christmas we will be in Indiana with our second daughter and her family. By New Year’s Eve, we will return to New York and watch the countdown of the dropping of the Ball at Times Square at midnight to mark the beginning of the new year. On the way back, we will visit friends and relatives in London and the midlands. We are very excited about it all. -- Anowara Ahmed

As usual, my husband and I will be spending the Christmas holidays at home in Sri Lanka with our families and friends. After many years of brutal civil war, peace is now a real possibility in Sri Lanka and that makes for a much brighter Christmas. But it will be a sad Christmas for me – the first one without my father, who died in January this year. Still, I look forward to spending it the rest of my family, especially my nieces and nephews. -- Minoli De Soysa