And So This is Christmas…

Hopefully I will get back to my catch-up posts on Denmark in time for a little holiday “hygge.” (Def: Danish word for a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality with feelings of wellness and contentment.)  But I didn’t want the holiday season to slip by without taking a “real time” moment to wish each of my kind readers, dear friends and family, and supporters of this blog the Merriest of Christmases. Let’s all put our collective hopes together for a return to normalcy before another COVID Christmas 2022!

Hopefully John and Yoko were right in the “Happy Xmas” song released fifty years ago in 1971 when they penned the lyrics, “War is over if you want it.” Let the war on COVID be over, and instead turn our thoughts toward good health, the true prosperity in the coming year.

Here is my best attempt at sending a holiday greeting card…scenes from Roatan and Utila, the beautiful Bay Islands of Honduras.

(Please forgive the lousy iphone photo quality. Who goes to a beautiful beach destination and forgets their camera?? Me, apparently.)

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Wishing you all happiness and the prosperity of good health in the coming year.

So this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
And new one just begun

And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas (war is over)
For weak and for strong (if you want it)
The rich and the poor ones
The road is so long

And so Happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight

A very Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear

And so this is Christmas
And what have we done?
Another year over
And new one just begun

And so Happy Christmas
We hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young

A very Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Let’s hope it’s a good one
Without any fear

War is over
If you want it
War is over
Now

~Happy Xmas, John Lennon and Yoko Ono

14 thoughts on “And So This is Christmas…

  1. Merry Merry Christmas my friend! I was wondering where you would be spending it. All the best for a happy, healthy, 2022! Miss you girl!!♥️

  2. and so the answer to “I wonder where Suzanne is?” Merry Christmas friend and all fingers crossed for the New Year!

  3. Merry Christmas and all the best for 2022! This seems like the perfect place to welcome in the new year…but it looks like you had it all to yourself! Can’t wait to see where 2022 takes you…and me!

  4. I have been playing that song on the piano all week, and didn’t have all the words. Love it. Your photos of Roatan brought back some great memories. Pretty sure I have a photo of Mo and I on a very similar pier when we visited there. Just beautiful. Thank you for all the effort you put into writing and photographing your travels. I am overwhelmed by the Faroe Islands especially. Just wow. Thank you again, Suzanne.

  5. Definitely looks like a tropical desert isle! I love the wine bottle Christmas tree.

    Oh, and the last post about the Faroes, I could not have enjoyed that spectacular scenery wondering when I was going to be involved in a head-on collision!

  6. Looks like a fab place to spend the holidays! Merry Christmas Suzanne! Wishing you a year of fun explorations and good health!

  7. Happy New Year, Suzanne! May 2022 bring you further exotic locales, satisfying adventures and delicious food and drink! I shall be tagging along in spirit. Onward and upward! 🙂

  8. Feliz Año Nuevo Amiga! My favorite photo was your first: a cabaña with a hammock. Yeah. That would be my go to place in 2022. Wishing you mucho felicidad en 22.

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