The Brits are not given to many Christmas window decorations or street decorations but they love their Chrismas markets or Fayre's! Every city and even some of the smaller villages have their version of a Christmas market. Some are quite elaborate, while others are rather small.
The booths in the market feature everything from nuts to candy to jellies to handmade items and to wonderful cheeses. (I shall greatly miss the delicious cheese!!!! A nice fattening snack!)
Most of the markets feature street actors, musicians and Christmas characters.
This particular market is in York -- which is one of the most charming areas around. And we were lucky enough to hit it on a clear day. Clear here means that it is not pouring rain. It has nothing to do with sunshine which is almost non existent.
Winter Solstice is here. It is dark at 3:30 and light at 8:30 and in between it is mostly grey skies with mist. Honestly, this Island is drowning......flood warnings every day. The fields are soggy, the rivers are overflowing and the unbrellas are big business!!!
But still, we love it!!
Well done Richard and Kathleen, us Brits love our Christmas and our Christmas trees introduced by Prince Albert I believe, your readers will like the history about the Summerhays family, also pioneers such as David Turner and many interesting facts about the LDS church and their contribution to family genealogy it is all in my book called TURNER TREES available at online book stores and Kindle.
ReplyDeleteBy Keith Pott Turner. Best Wishes