Travel with Kat

London at Christmas really is a wonderful place to be! The Christmas lights in town look stunning and shops such as Harrods and Selfridges are famous for their seasonal window displays. Everywhere is hectic but there’s a feeling of celebration in the air! One of my favourite places to visit is Hyde Park’s Winter Wonderland [...]

Winchester Christmas Market, which has been running since 2006, has established itself as one of the best in Europe. Inspired by traditional German markets, all the stalls are in delightful wooden chalets in the grounds of the city’s majestic Cathedral. It runs until Sunday 23rd December so there is still time to visit if you [...]

For one weekend every year the historic docklands of Portsmouth are transformed into a scene straight out of a Dickensian novel! Singing street urchins, chimney sweeps and ladies of the night (hold on to your husbands girls) are among the many characters in costume. Plus there were craft and local farm produce stalls and the [...]

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all! This week’s photograph is of the children at Jeddah Progress Nursery School in The Gambia. Although The Gambia is a Muslim country they are very tolerant of other religions and it is not unknown for Muslims to join in Christian celebrations and vice versa. I [...]

Last weekend I spent a wonderful Sunday afternoon exploring Covent Garden in London and was thrilled to discover a 32 foot high topiary reindeer and the largest Christmas tree I’ve ever seen as well as the wonderful street entertainers that you will find here any time of the year. After a few hours shopping, we [...]

This weekend the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum at Singleton near Chichester in West Sussex, hosts its annual Christmas Market. The museum, in the heart of the South Downs National Park, is a wonderful collection of nearly 50 buildings that have been painstakingly dismantled, re-built and restored, to bring alive southern England’s homes, farms [...]