It's difficult to leave the Yuletide spirit on a trip to Iceland throughout the holidays - a vacation to Reykjavik will be packed with an awesome amount of Holiday merry-making. The city goes crazy for a great Christmas occasion, and starts ringing in the season in the beginning of December, with the lighting of the town's Christmas tree at Austurvöllur square. The party consists of choirs singing carols and the arrival of the 1st of the "Holiday Lads," 13 Santas who perform around town during the course of Lent.
Other favorite holiday sights feature the Xmas Village in Hafnarfjörður town, a tiny, joyful town chockfull of businesses offering vacation presents and traditional foods in the middle of live entertainment, and a visit to Reykjavik's major Christmas Market in Ingólfstorg Square, which fills with suppliers offering holiday season gifts, mulled wine and performances from a variety of artists.
Lastly, to experience an old-fashioned, Nordic Xmas, head to the Christmas exhibition at the Reykjavik City Museum, where exhibits demonstrate how fried bread is crafted, tallow is used to make candle lights, and guests can get to know traditional Yuletide songs and dances.
Monday, 23 October 2017
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For a truly special take on Christmas celebrations, consider a holiday to Taos during the course of the christmas season. The town's Native American and Hispanic influences prevail, inspiring a multicultural twist to the holiday season with activities like the lighting of Ledoux Street, where the charming street's shops, museums, studios and galleries offer music, drink and food, and bonfires to passersby's, and the avenue is lined with farolitos, or small lanterns, warmly glowing.
Taos's Christmas tree lighting takes place at the end of November in a festivity that involves carol singing and the arrival of Santa Claus in a vintage fire truck. In the times preceding Christmas, the town also rejoices in the Hispanic tradition, "Las Posadas", a candlelight processional at Ranchos de Taos Plaza, as well as a spectacle of Los Pastores, a Spanish morality play.
Saturday, 21 October 2017
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For many Americans, the start of the holiday is associated with the lighting of the enormous Xmas tree in Rockefeller Center Plaza, new york City's veritable holiday hq. Locals and tourists head to the plaza in flocks, where they are able to ice skate on the rink built under the plaza's Prometheus statue, or just simply stare in wonder at the huge Christmas tree, hung with around 30,000 LED lights.
Grab the children and hightail it to every child's dreamland, FAO Schwarz, the monumental toy store where it genuinely is entirely possible to play the piano with your footsies on the giant flooring keyboard, a la the Tom Hanks' movie, Big. Next, you'll want to roam to Macy's Santaland, a genuine winter wonderland loaded with toy trains, pixies, Christmas trees and many other vacation scenarios sure to call forth wonder in the entire family group. If you have not maxed out on the holiday crowds, make sure to order tickets to the Radio City Music Hall's Xmas Spectacular, where you'll not only see lots of dancing Father Christmas's but the high-kicking legs of the famous Rockettes.