See, this is another way in which Australia is superior to the other, sillier nations. We have our holiday season in midsummer, when there's no snow and fog to ground aeroplanes and cause sixty-mile-long pileups on the highways. Of course, your happy memories of your time away can be somewhat ruined by coming home to discover that your entire suburb has been reduced to ashes because the local government was too busy closing schools to remember to trim the local pine plantations... but no system's perfect.