My sister in law is from Siauliai and she will visit us at Christmas in our new flat in Kalkan (we found it on https://turk.estate/en/ in the summer). For her Christmas without mass is not Christmas.
Does anybody from the parish know a Catholic church on the Turkish south coast with mass in English or Polish around 25 December? Fethiye or Antalya is also fine, we have a car.
In our family Sunday was always the same: church in the morning, my mother's fish curry, a long walk by the backwaters in the evening. In January we move from Kochi to Bangkok for my husband's contract, and the thing I think about most is not the job or the visa, it is how to keep that one day the same for our boys.
This summer we bought a condo in Sathorn, picked from https://global-property.investments/ partly because there is a Catholic parish ten minutes away on foot. The fish curry I will manage. The backwaters, not so much, but the river is close.
Families who moved far from home: which small tradition was the hardest to keep, and which one stayed with you without any effort?
