Christmas Crush

Last Saturday (4th December) Peter and I went out to get an overcoat for him (he has been surviving 3 degree mornings with nothing but a suit jacket and a scarf!) and to find a suit for me - I have a couple of interviews coming up.

We thought we'd try to avoid the crowds, and headed off to one of the larger shopping centres out of the centre of London in Surrey Quays. Unfortunately, however, the coats which were there a month ago had all disappeared. So we had to brave the crowds at Oxford St. What an experience. One I would not recommend. the street corners proved particularly bottle-necky. At one stage, right near the Oxford Circus tube station, I was literally getting squashed by the crowd, and very scared - there was no room to move! Luckily we went down into the tube and came out the other side, which wasn't so crowded. I don't think I will brave those crowds again, at least not without Peter.

But we did get to enjoy the pretty Christmas lights that line Regent St. We tried to get a few pictures, but given the conditions (crowded, dark at 4pm) it was tricky. The first photo was taken outside Hamley's (toy store: the yellow lights); the other lights in the background line the rest of Regent St. The second photo shows the lights in the background, and the big red London buses passing by.