In central London the major lite streets are Oxford Street and Regent Street. The major window displays are Harrods by the Knightsbridge station, Selfridges near Bond street, Carnaby street near Oxford Circus station, hamlets toy store in Regent street nearer the Oxford Circus station, but many people like to walk from Piccadilly and Piccadilly station along Regent street.
Wembley Arch
Travelling by bus or train, you can travel into London to see the lights. If you are travelling out of London, or into London, by train, you can see the Wembley arch lit up at night from the Metropolitan railway as you pass. Have your camera or smart phone ready.
Many shopping malls have lights. For example, Watford's Intu. Most of the London malls have more lights inside than out. Plus a Santa's grotto and entertainment in the middle.
Suburban Watford's Intu
Singapore's Changi and Orchard Road
Changi airport has changing exhibitions in the departure and arrival halls, even on the carousels. Expect Christmas lights, Christmas trees and piped music of carols, instrumental or with words.
Singapore has lights along Orchard road, the main shopping street with several large malls. You also hear carols. Singapore tends to have the big displays over the front of the mall, sometimes overhead above pedestrians, best seen from across the road or from the upper deck of buses or from the overhead light railway in the suburbs. If you want refuge from the rain or to hide from the haze, an indoor walkway runs under Orchard Road from the huge underground shopping complex below the central Orchard station on basements one and two. You can come up again at any of the malls, such as Ngee Ann City towers.
Diwali
In London Diwali is celebrated with fireworks. Diwali will be celebrated with lights in Little India in Singapore.
Chinese new Year
Chinese New Year decoration will be all over Singapore, in the centre, and the atriums of the larger hotels, as well as in Chinatown's streets and malls.
Red and orange lanterns appear everywhere in Singapore, for Chinese festivals, including swimming pools and public areas and walkways of government and private housing estates.
More information and photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3323408/Aux-armes-citoyens-Fan-s-video-shows-incredibly-emotional-Wembley-moment-English-French-supporters-joined-sing-La-Marseillaise-tribute-victims-Paris-attacks.html
See later post Nov 19 2015 for photo of Wembley arch in tricolour.
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.
Pictures will be added later today, Wednesday.
Wembley Arch
Travelling by bus or train, you can travel into London to see the lights. If you are travelling out of London, or into London, by train, you can see the Wembley arch lit up at night from the Metropolitan railway as you pass. Have your camera or smart phone ready.
Suburban Watford's Intu
Train for children to ride at Intu shopping mall (for a fee).
Double decker view of lights on columns at Intu, Watford.
Lights on one level at Intu, Watford, England at night.
Intu lights in the day time - still a fairyland.
Singapore's Changi and Orchard Road
Changi airport has changing exhibitions in the departure and arrival halls, even on the carousels. Expect Christmas lights, Christmas trees and piped music of carols, instrumental or with words.
Singapore has lights along Orchard road, the main shopping street with several large malls. You also hear carols. Singapore tends to have the big displays over the front of the mall, sometimes overhead above pedestrians, best seen from across the road or from the upper deck of buses or from the overhead light railway in the suburbs. If you want refuge from the rain or to hide from the haze, an indoor walkway runs under Orchard Road from the huge underground shopping complex below the central Orchard station on basements one and two. You can come up again at any of the malls, such as Ngee Ann City towers.
Diwali
In London Diwali is celebrated with fireworks. Diwali will be celebrated with lights in Little India in Singapore.
Chinese new Year
Chinese New Year decoration will be all over Singapore, in the centre, and the atriums of the larger hotels, as well as in Chinatown's streets and malls.
Red and orange lanterns appear everywhere in Singapore, for Chinese festivals, including swimming pools and public areas and walkways of government and private housing estates.
More information and photos:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3323408/Aux-armes-citoyens-Fan-s-video-shows-incredibly-emotional-Wembley-moment-English-French-supporters-joined-sing-La-Marseillaise-tribute-victims-Paris-attacks.html
See later post Nov 19 2015 for photo of Wembley arch in tricolour.
Pictures will be added later today, Wednesday.
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