After a few hours exploring Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park, wandering around the pretty craft stalls and laughing at the screams and shouts of joy coming from the hair-raising rides we tucked into delicious German sausages and a glass or two of hot mead. A wonderful way to spend New Year’s Eve 2011.
Angels Christmas Market with numerous stalls selling beautiful hand-made crafts, delicious home-made mead….
Hungarian chimney cake or for those with a big appetite, Lángos, a Hungarian fried bread topped with shredded cheese or sour cream….
…all washed down by a mug of hot chocolate, mulled wine or cider, mead or perhaps a glass of viking blood (a German mead made with cherries and honey) or a pint at Santa’s Pub one of many fine drinking establishments in Winter Wonderland.
Snow flakes whirled around us (and we couldn’t figure out where it was coming from as it wasn’t actually snowing!)
More of my photographs of London at Christmas and New Year on Flickr.
This year’s Winter Wonderland is sadly over but I’m sure it will be back again next year. One of London’s Royal Parks, Hyde Park, covers over 350 acres and is well worth a visit any time of year. For more information visit Hyde Park. I’ve added a pin on uencounter.me to show Hyde Park’s location.
Happy New Year Kat! Lovely photos, I haven’t been to the Winter Wonderland for years (when it was a lot smaller by the look of it now) but will have to go along next year.
Thanks Lucy and happy New Year to you too. It was wonderful. Free to get in but rides were very expensive. We were just happy looking round.
Beautiful! It kind of reminds me of the Edinburgh Christmas Market, minest the ice skating rink
Thanks for checking out my blog. Christmas Markets are great to photograph. Hope I get to go to a few more next year.
Awwww! Beautiful! Wish I could have been there!
Thank you so much.
Beautiful images Kathryn. Saw the snow and thought I was abroad.
Thanks Jo. The fake snow was lovely but we honestly couldn’t see where it came from!
If you’d like to see some images of London in real snow check out my flickr pix
Such magical pictures and delicious looking morsels on your journey through the market! I wish I could have been there.
Thanks Jeff! It was lovely and there were lots of delicious temptations!
That is pretty cool! Having just come back from Christmas in Prague – I love the Christmas Markets. Hyde Park looks to have done London proud! Great photos. That moose head is crazy!!! Not something I would have associated with England.
Hi Anita,
No, the moose’s head is not very English at all. It did make me laugh though. I don’t think I mentioned that it was animated and singing! Very silly but fun.
Prague is beautiful any time of year but I bet it’s wonderful at Christmas. I loved your post on the excellent wine bar you found http://traveldestinationbucketlist.com/2012/01/13/not-your-standard-cave-prague/
Thanks for checking out my blog.
Kathryn
Wow! Looks like my kind of place. Lovely and fun images!!!
Thanks! I had a lovely day there