Christmas at London

Today London woke up with snow. In 14 days will be Christmas. And you still don’t you know what to do or where to go in London at Christmas?

Regent St/Oxford St/ Piccadilly: Try to avoid this part of the city during the weekends but a visit to these streets is needed. Please, don’t forget to go to Hamleys the toy shop, even though you are not a child it is really cool.

The Christmas’ light decoration at Regent St is smart and heavenly nice. There are angels or Christmas’ spirit hanging, the shops have lights, Christmas trees and are full of people buying their presents.

A compulsory stop at Oxford St is John Lewis mall, not only because I like it, if not because there you can find the Moz's (the monster) house!! Nice place for kids.

Burlington Arcade, the little shops are good tasted decorated, the place is nice and the shops are cute, what else can you ask for?

Covent Garden: Really nice decorated and full of shops to buy presents. Don't forget to buy some chocolates at Hotel Chocolat.

Fortum & Mason, this mall is amazing all over the year, at Christmas time… it is breath-taking… Christmas trees all over the place, thousands of Christmas decoration to buy, people buying Christmas presents and food to full their tables.

Ice skating at Somerset House. There are several ice skate places but maybe this is one of the biggest, or at least my favourite one.

What I like from Christmas in some countries in Europe, which we don’t have in Spain, is the Mulled wine!  It is hot red wine whit some kind of sweet and spicy seasoning.

Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park. I chose the wrong day for going. Even though it was a Thursday and I just had to wait for 30 or 40 minutes at the queue (reasonable), I didn’t have a really good time because it was bitingly cold. It is a place for children and for going with friends, have fun and eat something. But it was so cold that not even the Mulled wine helped you to get warm.

The Magical Lantern Festival at London: Honestly it’s only darkness, lanterns and a park but the mix of the three things is nice. Quite overpriced for my point of view, but just for once in your life it is ok.