**Hi all, cost & info below, this walks operates only once a year.** Please join everyone for a beautiful, short 2.5 mile, linear walk. This is more of a quaint village-feel Christmas Walk. Wonderful displays of Christmas, but spread out over a 2.5 mile healthy linear walk from Hyde Park to Sloane Square, with wonderful Christmas Charm every now and then, which also includes the Story of Christmas! Where does the origin of Christmas come from? Where does the tradition of having a Christmas Tree in your home come from? It actually comes from several hundred years ago, long before Prince Albert in Victorian times popularized the tradition in the UK. What about the origin of Yule, why decorations on trees, having turkey, carols, Santa Claus, reindeer, yule log, the Christmas cracker, candles, three wise men, mince pies, pudding, stuffing, sprouts, Holly and the Ivy? It is a fascinating story of where all these traditions come from and none of which you might possibly expect, mixed in with the wonderful Christmas displays of Belgravia and Chelsea! At the end of the walk, the pubs are too small to fit everyone, but there is a choice of various wonderful bistros, restaurants and old Christmas historic pubs to visit as smaller groups! There will be background music from the Human Jukebox (me!) with some of the most famous Christmas Songs and Carols to join us on our festive walk! Ready for Christmas, we will see beautiful lit-up streets and lanes, beautiful trees, a sight to behold and beautiful areas to photograph, but in a more peaceful setting, different but charming away from the main Christmas lights of London After you come out of Hyde Park Corner Underground Station (look for Exit 1 Knightsbridge North Side) Please then go to the Hyde Park Main Entrance and we will meet just by 'The Lodge Cafe', situated immediately on the left as you enter the main arches. Hyde Park (Piccadilly Line) to Sloane Square (District and Circle Line) **COST** £10 cash/card payment by simp

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