If you’re looking for some way’s to enjoy a traditional Christmas over the coming week here are a few things happening in London.
Hampton Court Palace in west London has a number of events going on including their last night of Christmas Carolling, tonight starting at 6pm. It costs £6 to join in with a brass band that makes its way through the Palace’s courtyards and lit gardens.
They have performances of a one man version of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol on the 22-23 and 27-30 December at 8pm with matinees on 23 and 30 December at 5pm. Tickets cost £17.50 for adults.
From 27 December-1 January they have an exhibition called Tudor Christmas where you can find out how the likes of Henry VIII lived high on the hog at Christmastime.
The Tower of London is putting on an exhibition called Medieval Christmas between 27-31 December showing how King Edward I and his court never went short in the 13th century.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew near Richmond in west London have a number of special events going on over Christmas including their ice rink, festive horse and carriage rides, Christmas pantomime, Victorian Christmas Carousel, and in the days after Christmas storytellers will give performances in the afternoon telling Winter tales. Their are also guided tours of the gardens that explain plants associated with the Christmas period. Kew is also a place you can recycle your Christmas when the season is finished.
The Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, about ten minutes from the London eye, explains the Christmas truce of 1914 when British and German soldiers in the trenches on the Western Front, on the first Christmas Day of World War 1, spontaneously stopped fighting, met in No Man’s Land, played football and swapped gifts. The generals weren’t happy.
Crisis the homeless charity is having a Winter Walkabout, a sponsored treasure hunt along the River Thames on Thursday 28 December starting at 2pm at the Hay’s Galleria on the south bank between Tower Bridge and London Bridge. Tickets cost £12 adults, £4 kids and participants will be lead around the City of London and Southwark by the clues.
Boxing Day traditionally means sport to a lot of people and this year there is plenty of football on in London if you can get a ticket. Chelsea v Reading, Tottenham v Aston Villa, Watford v Arsenal and West Ham v Portsmouth are the Premieship games in London, there’s also a local derby between Brentford v Millwall in League One and Barnet v Peterborough is a League Two game. In Rugby Union, London Irish v Leicester and Wasps v Gloucester are the London teams in action, but to many people the highlight of Boxing Day is the horseracing at Kempton Park in west London, featuring one of the biggest steeplchase races of the year, the King George VI Chase.
If you have any spare cash left over remember a lot of the big Londons stores will be starting Christmas sales next week.
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