HoHoHo! Merry Christmas! Sorry. Please excuse my premature Christmas spirit. Last night Alfie and I headed to the Christmas of Lights Festival in Oxford city centre. My mind has been in summer holiday mode ever since returning from our honeymoon. I guess 30 degree heat really doesn’t warrant Christmas cheer for us in the UK.
To get in to the festive spirit from the off I started the day off with a scrumptious pumpkin, hazelnut and almond smoothie:
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This was awesome! A simple mix of tinned pumpkin, hazelnut almond rice milk, water, ground flax and shelled hemp seeds. I could drink these all year round.
The Christmas lights were stunning:
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They had some bicycle decorations too, which I thought was very Oxford.
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Roasting chestnuts on the fire!
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There was all sorts going on including a live band, dancing, a fair ground and a Christmas market full of handmade goods and food.
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I picked up a delicious Thai green chicken curry and spotted some spiced hot mulled wine that I wanted to try:
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This tasted seriously good!
There were plenty of rides at the fairground, mainly for kids, but we couldn’t resist hopping onto the nearby carousel:
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Then on to dessert…
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There was a long queue at the churros stand, but we waited patiently and shared these wonderful organic and vegan churros coated in cinnamon sugar. We had some melted chocolate for dipping too. OMG! These were well worth the wait, so good!
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For the journey home we picked up a hot chocolate each. There were 20 flavours to choose from so it was a tough decision. I had the amaretto hot chocolate and Alfie had the coconut hot chocolate. We were both equally pleased with our choices.
I’m well up for Christmas now and cannot wait for the big day. The run up to Christmas is just the best and I love getting all prepared, baking and buying presents.
Are you in the Christmas spirit yet? One of our neighbours have put their Christmas tree decorations up already. It’s a bit early for me for all of that just yet.
Ha I think it is a bit too early for decorations! But I am starting to get ready- I have bought a few gifts and of course made Christmas cakes for presents too. Those churros sound amazing 🙂
I’m definitely in the mood for Xmas now. I can’t wait!! It’s come around so quickly this year. I bet your cakes are wonderful.
We’ve started to think about Christmas presents but I’m not really feeling it just yet. I almost went to Hyde Park for the lights on Friday but ended up being too tired to travel after work so went to the cinema to see Catching Fire instead. I love the Christmassy atmosphere of light switch ons though. It’s all about wrapping up warm, eating roasted nuts, drinking hot chocolate and mulled wine! Our next door neighbours have had a massive 8ft tree delivered and once that’s decorated I think I’ll start to feel more in the mood.
An 8ft tree, that must look incredible when it’s all lit up.
Christmas time came around so fast this year and I cannot believe that it is nearly December already. Still, I am getting the decorations up and my mom bought me an Advents calender and friends are asking to go to the Christmas fair, so I guess there’s no escape 🙂
I say just go with it and have fun! Hope you enjoy the Christmas fair.
Those churros look amazing! x
They were so good!
Vegan churros- Amazing! I’m not quite in the Christmas spirit yet, I don’t feel like it should all start until Dec 1st, so next weekend I’ll start to get into it!
They were to die for! I know what you mean-it is a bit early, but why not?!
Ahhhhh I absolutely adore churros. So tasty! And the hot chocolate sounds fabulous. What a lovely time out! I’m so ready to be Christmassy 🙂
Same here, bring in Christmas! 🙂