Yule logs and canapes

Merry Christmas all.

Follow up: 26th December
We had a great break away. The weather has been lovely (be it a bit chilly) however no snow. Had a great time swimming, sleeping, relaxing, reading, taking photographs and just hanging out together. It was probably a great time to chill out as I am still getting over my cold.

We are back home now and it will be back to work again sooner than we would like. Here are a few pics of our time away. By the way – I have no idea what a yule log is but everyone keeps referring to them over here (turns out a yule log is a large round log that you burn in the fireplace, something to do with a custom of putting the yule log on and as long as it continued to burn then you had a break from the fields).

Our home for 2 days
Our home for 2 days

View from the balcony
View from the balcony

Feeding the locals
Feeding the locals

Bit of creative photoling
Bit of creative photoling

Loving the fire!
Loving the fire!

Bath Christmas Markets

Held from the 27th November to the 7th December in Bath the idea is to replicate the atmosphere and wintery appeal of the European Christmas markets. I haven’t yet had the opportunity to go to the proper European ones yet (something always conspires against us so we never get the time to go). If the European ones are anything like Bath was then I really won’t bother. It was a rather big let down. For all the atmosphere that Bath has during the day with the golden Bath stone buildings etc the markets at night really lacked any atmosphere.
You would expect a cosy feel, colourfully lit, wonderfully decorated stalls, lots of mulled wine, roasting chestnuts, carols or at least Christmassy music. Well there was some of that but mostly lots of stalls selling stuff you just don’t need.
Glad I’ve done it so I know that I needn’t bother in future.