All close to home this year. On Friday I posted the Manchester Christmas Market which is high up on the lists of best Christmas markets around. I have got that right haven't I?
Anyway, missing out on our German Markets we also visited York the other weekend.
Never again. It was Ice Sculpture time and it was mad busy. With the cobbled streets, crowds and my rollator it was a bit of an arduous task to get around. Anyway we did do a little of it, mainly the ice sculpture trail:
Aladdin is playing at the Grand Opera House
This little boy was so excited - I think you are supposed to have two of you and stand behind the sculpture so that your head is in the visor.
Not sure what this is (above)
Some of them had prizes attached like this dog
Fluge - outside where we had a Roast Hog Muffin
The Man in the Moon
Olaf (Chas had no idea who or what this was)
A diamond ring
Can you see the ring encased in ice below?
A watering can, complete with flower
and lastly 'wings'
Oh to be lithe enough to crouch in front of them and look like an angel with the tree in the background. Not many, even young ones, did.
Away from Ice Sculptures and looking in a shop window I saw these lovely Gingerbread Houses - could not resist taking a photo.
Well, that is all that we saw, it was lovely to escape into Marks & Spencer's to avoid the crowds but it did mean it was a costly escape. I bought a jacket and Chas bought a new dressing gown. Then we had tastings of Prosecco and chocolate biscuits. In fact I had a few tastings of the Prosecco so I could collect enough of those teeny plastic glasses to give my son the ability to taste my flavoured gins which I bought at the Bolton Christmas Market (no pictures, too cold that day) without being over the limit for driving home. We went into Bolton the next day to buy the booze and biscuits as we were to laden with the clothing to bother in York.
Off to MacArthur Glenn to collect the car and have my favourite salad at Pizza Express. Too tired to wander and look at what was on offer or at their Christmas market but the entrance was rather nice
Christmas would not be Christmas without the Nussknackers.
