# Anyone going away for New Year?

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**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-going-away-for-new-year/96145 "2001-11-30T16:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-going-away-for-new-year/96145/1 "2001-11-30T16:46:32Z")

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Any Dopers planning a Christmas/New Year holiday away from home? For the first time I’ve managed to tiptoe around the “Mum, dad, I won’t be coming home for Christmas” issue. I’m off down to Devon with a few mates to spend the festive season in a cottage on the coast\*. We’re already trying to work out how much booze you can consume in a week (a al _Withnail and I_). Christmas Day will involve duck, not turkey, and I’ll damn well open presents at 5am if I so choose!

Anyone else doing anything different for the holiday? Long trips abroad, something unusual? Or just breaking the usual routine?

\*[sub] UK Dopers: this is not an invitation to burgle my house. A very good friend of mine, roughly a cross between Monty Burns and Tim Roth’s character in _ID_, will be housesitting.[/sub]