Have you ever gone away anywhere special for Christmas? Like a different country?

@SomeAreBoojums I'm really intrigued now!

@amethyst1 I was just little kid. So, plane land after midnight in the (former) capital city. Freezing, snowing, and we can't get a hotel because it Xmas and all booked up. Finally we talk to some dude who say his mom have a boarding house, she put us up. We go there, the woman take us in, must be 2am by now. Show us the room, we pay her, get undressed, go to bed, only to be woke up an hour later by loud banging on door. Its the stazi or whatever they call the secret police in that land, demanding to see our passports. They confiscate our passports and leave. My mother FREAKS OUT! However, in a few hours, they come back with passports and tell us all checks out. It was clear that this was a country that was coming apart at the seams, and that civil war was imminent (it would happen about 12 years later)

@SomeAreBoojums Ooh, that does sound scary. I assume you were there legally?

I actually listened to a documentary about a tunnel that was made - twice - under the Berlin Wall to rescue people. Very risky but interesting!