An Age of Magic

Excited children who can’t quite wait for Christmas morning, can now track Santa’s progress around the world online. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (Norad) will be keeping tabs on his reindeer-pulled sleigh using Google Earth. Children can also get updates via the social networking website Twitter by following @noradsanta.

Santa-nav: Father Christmas is snapped on his journey around the world with a number of ‘Santa cams’ The tradition of following Father Christmas began in 1955, after a Colorado newspaper advert for a Santa hotline was misprinted. Today in Australia children can get an update of santa’s progress via the evening news – I remember staying up and waiting for the newsreader to tell us children it was time for bed as santa was finally on his way down south.