I was hoping for a white Christmas,but unfortunately it didn't snow here. It did snow here few weeks back. Everything covered with white snow, made the city look so pretty and pure. Everybody could leave their footprints behind. There wasn't enough snow, but still kids came out to play in the snow with their parents. Even we tried our hands at making the snow man, didn't quite turn out as we imagined. It definitely is harder than we thought.
Most of the famous shopping streets are decorated in festive lighting now, which is so lovely to see. And you could see shoppers running around for their last minute shopping.
But, in contrast to that, come Christmas Eve and the city seems to have been evacuated. Am sure at least half of the population moves out either for a vacation abroad or to their family homes out of the town. And so we are feeling a bit restless, as we have never seen (or heard) the city go so quite. No traffic noise, no sirens, no 'Happy' people laughing and chatting loudly on the streets. Seems like London is on curfew. And today especially, almost everything comes to a standstill. No commercial establishments and corporate offices are open, tubes are not running and if you have forgotten to take your weekly groceries- forget it! You can't go anywhere to get food either.
Some of our friends had warned us about this, so we did our grocery shopping early:).
We have no plans for today, but given the situation we have no choice but to laze around and relax ;)
Most of the famous shopping streets are decorated in festive lighting now, which is so lovely to see. And you could see shoppers running around for their last minute shopping.
But, in contrast to that, come Christmas Eve and the city seems to have been evacuated. Am sure at least half of the population moves out either for a vacation abroad or to their family homes out of the town. And so we are feeling a bit restless, as we have never seen (or heard) the city go so quite. No traffic noise, no sirens, no 'Happy' people laughing and chatting loudly on the streets. Seems like London is on curfew. And today especially, almost everything comes to a standstill. No commercial establishments and corporate offices are open, tubes are not running and if you have forgotten to take your weekly groceries- forget it! You can't go anywhere to get food either.
Some of our friends had warned us about this, so we did our grocery shopping early:).
We have no plans for today, but given the situation we have no choice but to laze around and relax ;)
