Christmastime in London

Christmastime in London is amazing! Everything is so beautiful (when it isn't rainy and wet!). Actually, speaking of, the weather is crap here. It's always rainy and freezing cold and there are puddles everywhere and it gets dark at 4:00 PM. And they say it will get even worse in the coming months!! Aaack!!! Back to beautiful Christmas... the city is so big so everywhere you go, it's decorated in a unique way. There are trees and lights everywhere. I'm posting some of my favourite Christmas spots: Covent Garden, Oxford Street, Hays Galleria, etc.

The market at Covent Garden--I love this because the decorations are so tasteful and elegant

I think this is called Carnaby Street or Wharf or something.. it's off of Oxford street and it's a buch of great little stores and I love these unique decorations

Beautiful twinkling blue lights around Southbank/Waterloo. I LOVE walking by here at night.

Angel decorations down a side street of Oxford Street. In case anyone didn't know, Oxford Street is THE shopping street. With literally any store you can imagine. You could spend days shopping here!

An ice rink an gorgeous tree at Somerset House, near my school. Maybe one day I will pay the $24 to skate there....

It's a big deal here to light the Traflager Square Christmas tree. It started as a gift of a tree from Norway in 1947 to say thank you for help during WWII. So I went, thinking it would be great. They play it up like the Rockafeller tree, so I had high expectations. Well first, of course it was raining. So that automatically brought it down a notch. And the tree was.....disappointing. Like a Charlie Brown tree. Fairly tall, but super scraggly and thin. And just a few lights draped haphazardly over it. And you couldn't hear the choir singing carols. And the rain made the tree branches droop even more than usual. Maybe I'm too used to "America--bigger and better", but it was sort of a disappointment! Picture below....

Sorry to end this posting with such a sad photo, but it was a sad tree.