[Lauren]

Hey everyone,

I refuse to even believe it's December the 1st tomorrow 😅 Where has this year gone?

The countdown to Christmas, has well and truly begun! Below is a couple of lists of activities and things to do with your family and friends over the UK:

🎄 Christmas Markets 🎁​​​​​​​
Combat those dark nights with an afternoon browsing festive bargains and sampling delicious food stalls.
• Leeds Christkindelmarkt – Millennium Square, Leeds
• The Victorian Christmas Market – Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
• York’s St Nicholas Christmas Fair – Parliament Street, York
• Bath Christmas Market – Abbey Churchyard, Bath
• Birmingham Frankfurt Christmas Market – Victoria Square, Birmingham
• Southbank Winter Festival – Southbank Centre, London
• Winter Gardens Wonderland – Blackpool, Lancashire
Ill be attending Winchesters Christmas Market next week, has anyone else been to others not in the list above? 😍

🎄​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​Festive Days Out 👪
With Christmas just around the corner, there are lots of places working hard to organise fun-filled family days out:

• Winter Funland – Manchester
• Winter Wonderland – London
• Yorkshire’s Winter Wonderland – York
• Lapland UK – Ascot
• Alton Towers Santa’s Sleepover – Alton
• Cardiff’s Winter Wonderland – Cardiff
• Chessington World of Adventures, Winters Tail – London
• Drayton Manor, Magical Christmas – Staffordshire
• Silent Nights – Edinburgh
• Christmas at Longleat – Wiltshire
• Santa’s Sleepover Legoland – Berkshire
• Santa Land – Edinburgh

🎄​​​​​​​ Ice Rinks ⛸
• The Natural History Museum – London
• The Royal Pavilion Brighton Ice Rink – East Sussex
• Bath On Ice – Bath
• Windsor Ice Rink Alexandra Gardens – Berkshire
• The Eden Project – Cornwall
• Somerset House – London
• Hampton Court Palace – Surrey
• Ice Skate - Birmingham

🎄​​​​​​​ Illuminations 💡
Light up trail walks have been rising in popularity over the last few years - A perfect place to find beautiful light displays and magical gardens

• Christmas at Kew – Richmond
• RHS Wisley – Surrey
• Anglesey Abbey – Cambridgeshire
• Blickling Estate – Norfolk
• Belton House – Lincolnshire
• Durham Massey – Greater Manchester
• Gibside – Tyne & Wear
• Ickworth – Suffolk
• Killerton – Devon
• Stourhead – Wiltshire
• The Alnwick Garden – Newcastle
• Enchanted Forest - Gloucestershire
• Kingston Lacy – Dorset

🎄​​​​​​​ Christmas Movie Screenings 📽
• Brands Hatch – Kent
• The NEC – Birmingham
• St Michael’s Church – Buckinghamshire
• Backyard Cinema – London
• Battersea Arts Centre – London
• Christmas City – Manchester
• Shanfold Farm – East Sussex

I'll certainly be making an attendance to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park this year - what will you be up to? 🎡✨🥨

Kindest regards,
Lauren

[Georgia]

@Lauren this is such a great list, I had no idea all of these places had all of this going on!

Has anyone been to any of these? I must admit I have been in London in December for a good few years now and have never been to Winter Wonderland! 😲