I love Christmastime in London and here are the best things to do during the
festive season. London has tons of christmas markets all around during
december so they're definitely a must visit. At christmas markets you can
always find vendors selling food, drinks, gifts, London-y things. My favorite is
probably the south bank winter festival because it's right along the river and
if you walk down far enough you'll see Big Ben and the London Eye lit up along
with the Christmas lights I will link a bunch of great markets down in the
description box below as long as everything else talked about in this
video so you can go visit it for yourself.
Winter wonderland is probably
the most famous Christmasy thing that London has it's a big section of Hyde
Park that's been transformed into a wintery Christmasy themed Park of sorts
again it has all of those Christmas market-y things but there's also rides
and ice rink and sometimes livemusic. My only recommendation is to not
go on the weekends because it gets absolutely crazy you might have to wait
on line to get in even though it's free to go.
Oh the Christmas lights in London!
London throws those Christmas lights in your face like the city just does them
absolutely beautifully so my favourites are along Oxford Street and Regent
Street there's some great ones along Carnaby Street Covent Garden has a
Christmas tree and lights everywhere Trafalgar Square
honestly everywhere.
If you want to see the light show of all light shows get
tickets to Christmas at Kew Gardens. I did this last weekend and it's
absolutely beautiful Kew Gardens put on this incredible light
show exhibition that you walk through.
While you're in London during the
festive season you should definitely book yourself in to go ice-skating there
are a few places around London that have ice rinks where you can rent skates and
skate around for an hour the Natural History Museum, Somerset House has one
but I'll link up a few options down below.
If you want to go on a weekend or
in the evening you'll probably need to book in advance so make sure you do that
there are lots of places you can do your Christmas shopping in London whether
that be for Christmasy things or just for the gifts you have to get that are on
your list.
For Christmasy things like I said the Christmas markets are great
for those or you can go to one of the department stores Christmas shops
Harrods has one, so does Liberty and Selfridges... if you want the epitome of
Christmas inside these Christmas shops are it those are great places to get a
London Christmasy ornament.
And finally if you just want to get like clothes and
things like that just go to one of the most popular shopping places in London I
have a blog post about those linked up down in the description
And I've you've
been watching my Instagram stories over the last couple weeks you'll see that
I've been doing lots of this that's getting festive drinks and food. Lots
of hotels bars and restaurants we'll have a winter menu from which you can
order Christmassy cocktails and wintery warmer food for example you could go to
the Montague hotel's Lodge where there's a bar and they serve all of these yummy
wintery food items they're also tons of hotels that put on wintery or Christmasy
afternoon tea I've recently tried a vegan friendly afternoon winter tea
at La Suite West's Raw restaurant and as a non vegan I thought it was beautifully
done and very tasty it's also reasonably priced for a winter tea. You can
also try the Conrad st. james's winter tea that they do every year and I'll
link up a few more down the description. In my winter in London video I recommend
a few different wintery rooftop bars that you can visit so if you click up
here you'll be able to watch that next. Sitting on a rooftop in the winter
sounds scary in London but actually lots of these rooftops do them really well
they have heaters and lots of nice warm blankets so they can keep you extra warm
and they're just decorated so beautifully. Other cool wintery escapes
that I like the John Lewis rooftop which has food drinks and cool views across
Oxford Street and there's loads so anything else I think of I'll leave down
in the description box and let me know down in the comments which one of these
you're most looking forward to doing while you're here during the festive
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