{"id":83,"date":"2006-12-13T10:43:48","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T14:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/treat-yourself-to-a-christmas-carol-in-london\/"},"modified":"2012-01-18T13:59:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T17:59:14","slug":"treat-yourself-to-a-christmas-carol-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/13\/treat-yourself-to-a-christmas-carol-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Treat yourself to a Christmas Carol in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img id=\"image114\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/london-christmas.jpg\" alt=\"London Christmas\" height=\"183\" align=\"left\" \/>Christmas is coming<\/strong>\u2026 wrap yourself in a scarf and hat and join the crowd of merry shoppers or passers by to enjoy <strong><a title=\"London Travel tips\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/london\/\">London<\/a><\/strong> sparkling lights and Carol singers, for London certainly is the best place in the world to discover (or rediscover) the spirit of <a title=\"You can also discover how we celebrate Christmas in Paris, the City of Lights; on the NY Habitat Blog\" href=\"\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/christmas-in-paris-the-city-of-lights\/\">Christmas<\/a>. Dickens said so and who would disagree\u2026 for even Scrooge did it!<\/p>\n<p>The city lights will start glowing towards late November, just before Advent. That\u2019s also when carol singers start filling the chilly air with their voices.\u00a0 Music is everywhere, enlightened by the twinkling colors of the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>Travelers who will choose to take their Christmas break in London will not fail to go and marvel at the giant <strong>Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square<\/strong> \u2013 given every year by the city of Oslo to the people of London \u2013 and at the most dazzling lights of Regent Street. As a reminder, Trafalgar Square is located between <a title=\"Travel Guide to Bloomsbury and West End, London\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/london\/london-travel-guide\/london-neighborhoods\/bloomsbury\/\">West End<\/a>, <a title=\"Travel tips about Mayfair and Soho, London\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/london\/london-travel-guide\/london-neighborhoods\/mayfair-soho\/\">Soho<\/a> and <a title=\"Travel Guide to Westminster, London\" href=\"\/blog\/category\/london\/london-travel-guide\/london-neighborhoods\/westminster\/\">Westminster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you made the smart choice to <strong>stay at a <a title=\"London Apartment Rentals \" href=\"\/london-apartment\/furnished\">London apartment<\/a><\/strong>, why not try your culinary talent and prepare a traditional Christmas dinner, with roast turkey and stuffing, roast potatoes and vegetables, bread sauce, cranberry sauce and gravy, followed by Christmas pudding, with brandy butter, please!\u00a0 If you do so, do not forget to place a Christmas cracker next to each plate on the dinner table.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, join in caroling your own holiday song and thus take part in one of the oldest customs in Great Britain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is coming\u2026 wrap yourself in a scarf and hat and join the crowd of merry shoppers or passers by to enjoy London sparkling lights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2169,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/2169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyhabitat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}