I love London at Christmas. It’s not as flashy as Christmas in New York – nothing can beat a tour of their incredible department store windows – but the streets take on an unrivalled Dickensian charm as the darkness descends, the fog rolls in and the lights begin to sparkle along the rooftops. Being crushed amidst the crowds of shoppers and tourists doesn’t seem so bad when you have beautiful lights to admire above your head. I have picked some of my favourite photos of my tours of London Christmas lights over the past few weeks for your viewing pleasure, and I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!
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Thank you for the pictures. I love your blog. Have a very Merry Christmas!
Thanks so much Jane! Glad you enjoy my posts! 🙂
Thank you, these are lovely, they remind me of paintings by John Atkinson Grimshaw
Thanks for mentioning John Atkinson Grimshaw, Sue – I’ve just had a lovely time looking at his amazing paintings! I’d never heard of him before. I love his misty autumnal scenes!
Lovely! Thank you for sharing your impressions and reflections. Your blogs are inspiring and uplifting and interesting. Merry Christmas to you.
Thank you, Caroline – what a lovely thing to say! Hope you had a lovely Christmas! 🙂
Happy Christmas to you to! Enjoy!
Thank you – hope you had a lovely day!
A very merry Christmas to you, Rachel,and may all the lights of the season shine down on you. Penny
Oh, I do hope you get to see those darling nephews!
Thank you so much Penny – same to you! Yes I did, thank you – they were very spoiled and very adorable!
Merry Christmas to you. I loved the pictures of the lights and was sorry not to be able to see them. Perhaps next year.
Thanks Rowena! Glad you enjoyed the pictures and hope you get to see them next year!
As well as the lights, one of my favourite Christmas things about working in London is the train and tube stations! There’s always music, choirs, singers, string quartets etc on the station concourses and tunnels – it helps lighten the mood on the way to work every day, but it’s especially great at Christmas!
I know, aren’t they brilliant? I miss the ‘advice’ the tube workers used to write on information boards at Angel station – it always cheered me up after a long day!
Merry Christmas! And thank you for the wonderful pictures, they are amazing! I wish I could move to London as soon as possible.
You are welcome, Elena! I hope one day you’ll get to live here too!
The Covent Garden shot looks so cosy! A coffee table book of London porn was one of my favourite gifts this year and as you know, I never get enough of that!
Merry Christmas to you and yours, Rachel.
Thanks Darlene! Hope you managed to survive Christmas in the cold! You are overdue for another visit, I think…next year maybe? 😉
Oh, I love these! Thank you so much for sharing the festive lights of London. I would love to be in London at Christmas time. Wishing you a Happy New Year!
I’m glad you love them, Sunday! I hope you can see London at Christmas one year soon. Happy New Year to you too!
Truth: I love New York, but London at Christmas is where my heart’s at. The lights on the South Bank make me so happy I almost start crying.