Sanna and I spent nearly 3 days in Christmassy London during our England Christmas 2014 break. Here are some of the best photos. They might be in a bit of a random order.
We are happy to visit London at Christmas time ![]()
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Here is a nice angle of 2 of the most famous landmarks of modern London, the London eye and Big Ben, lovely winters sky too.![]()
Sanna and I with the famous Big Ben and the houses of parliament.![]()
We visited the annual Winter Wonderland which is every Christmas in London’s Hyde Park. Its a German style outside winter market with food, drink, live music gifts and rides.![]()
Sanna enjoying a nice German sussage ![]()
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Inside German traditional a style drinking hall, its quite amazing this is all temporary and is taken away at the end of Christmas.
Outside drinking with live music was fun.![]()
Salmon being smoked on a open wood fire.![]()
A crazy but impressive looking themed ride.![]()
My date for the night ![]()
Ice skating on a temporary outside ice skate rink.
Sanna booked us to stay at London’s famous Dorchester hotel, one of the most exclusive where the wealthy and famous stay. I don’t want to know how much it cost for the room for 2 nights but for room service a Chicken club sandwich cost £25 $50 crazy!
St James park the one right out the front of Buckingham Palace has lots of swans, but Sanna was a bit scared to put her fingers out.
We made a very interesting trip to the famous ‘Tower of London’ The beefeater who gave the tour was very good and slipped in a lot of jokes.![]()
Map of the tower of London from 1597. There is actually not one tower but 22 on the whole site.![]()
Old armour looks so heavy to wear.![]()
In the armoury there were lots of very old weapons.![]()
and hundreds of swords to project the tower of London.Famous tower bridge.![]()
Famous tower bridge.
The home of Twinning’s tea, this is where it originally came from. It is now a small museum and shop.![]()
Lotus London’s showroom in Piccadilly circus has to be the most posh Lotus dealership ever.![]()
The hotel Dorchester’s corridors to the room were very plush with thick carpets, padded soft walls and antique vases lining the halls.![]()
We visited the famous Winston Churchill’s underground bunker war rooms from where Winston Churchill and his stall ran England’s efforts during the 2nd world war against Nazi Germany.![]()
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This room and BBC outside broadcast equipment was used by Churchill to deliver his famous wartime speeches to the people of England all to the troops all over Europe. ![]()
The main control room with telephones linking to head generals of the armed forces all over Europe.![]()
For lunch I had Christmas Ale, it was strong and tasted great, I wish we got beers like this in Australia.![]()
Lunch was very good with some of the best scotch eggs and caramelised onion relish i’ve ever had.![]()
We visited the famous Natural History museum. Such a massive museum and all totally free paid for by the government (our tax). It is a great educational museum to take children.
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar A T-rex head!![]()
The museums building has the most beautiful architecture.
The famous and poor Dodo bird is now extinct![]()
Famous Harrods, all lit up and Christmassy.![]()
Scones with clotted cream and Jam and a good cup of Tea, how English and yummy.![]()
Back in the Dorchester hotel, the main reception area felt very Christmassy.![]()
The large Christmas tree in the foyer of our hotel.![]()
Sanna wanted to visit Jamie Oliver’s American style Diner in Piccadilly Circus, it was good but not excellent, but wasn’t overpriced anyhow.![]()
Just by chance we spotted BBC’s Top Gear being filmed in the streets, the Stig was sitting on a motorised arm chair with two big machine guns sitting out the front being filmed from a Smart car.
A lovely Winters sky for the evening before we leave to go back to Sussex.![]()