It is also a complete change of scene for Tommy Jonasson from Sweden.
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Magdalena Schalt, (back) and Jessica Smith Bointon and Copperbeech House manager Annette Gould decorated the Christmas tree together. “It is really hot here but it is what we want to experience, a Southern Hemisphere Christmas,” Jonasson said. French backpacker Tatiana Berranger, 28, has been in Aotearoa since January. She was supposed to surprise her parents this year by going home for Christmas. But with France in its second coronavirus lock down, Berranger has decided to give up on that idea and stay in Blenheim, working in vineyards.