Sunday, 22 November 2009

• Where else would I want to be for Christmas?

  As Thanksgiving draws nearer I find myself getting more and more excited about the arrival of the holiday season. I am planning little trips, and buying tickets to shows, and marking my calendar off with great anticipation. You see I live in New York City, and really there is no place else to be for the holidays.

  
  

  Can't be beat

  I have been living in New York for my entire life and I can find something new to do for the holidays every year. First there are the obvious things like the tree at Rockefeller Center, Ice Skating at Central Park, Macy's Herald Square, and shopping on Fifth Avenue. But there are also tons of free live shows, tree lighting's at the South Street Seaport and the Met, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and so so much more. It cannot be beat! 

  But let's just say, hypothetically, that I did not live in the greatest city on earth. Where else might I like to spend the holidays? Here are my top five outside of NYC.

  5. Prague

   
  

  Prague is an ideal place to spend the holidays, with its fairy-tale-perfect Gothic towers and spires, cobblestone streets and Bohemian castles. I imagine it would give Christmas a pretty unique feel. 

  4. Disney World
  

  
  
  

  Okay if there were one warm weather place I would want to go for Christmas it would be Disney. Only if I had kids though. I have had friends of mine rave about the holiday parade and all of the festivities. I think it would be nice to do one year.

  3. Aspen

  
  
  

  For one thing I would be almost guaranteed a White Christmas. Outside of that, I would love to spend Christmas in a cabin in Aspen, curled up by a fire, with a cup of hot chocolate in my hand. I am definitely doing this trip one year.

  2. Lapland Finland

  
  
  

  Okay since we are talking snow, how bout we kick it up a notch. Finnish Lapland is the best place to potentially spot the big guy in red. This province of Finland, just north of the Arctic Circle, is home to Santa Claus Village, Santa's Post Office and Santa Park in the town of Rovaniemi. Reindeer are abundant (on dinner plates, fashioned into bags, as well as running free outdoors), and the big attractions are sleigh rides, dogsleds, arctic safaris and the Northern Lights. It's the best thing short of spending Christmas in the North Pole.

  1. London

  

  If there is any city that can hold a candle to New York in this category it is London. London offers a unique blend of old world and new world charm that no other city can match. You can stay more in the city if you want the lights and the shopping and so forth. Or you can spring for the old style Dickensian type holiday, complete with Christmas goose and port wine. This is another trip I must take.
  

  
  

  What other cities would you want to be for Christmas? Where are you spending your holiday this year?
  

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