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What Shall We Do On Boxing Day?

Published on December 26, 2016January 6, 2017 by milliethom12 Comments

Categories Customs and Traditions•Tags boxing day, Boxing Day sales, boxing day traditions, history of giving alms

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The Alhambra is a boat-shaped palace fortress in Granada in southern Spain, which we visited a couple of years ago on a fabulous tour of Andalucia/Andalusia. It is one of Spain's major tourist attractions and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Situated on Red Hill, the Arabic name for the palace, Alhambra, means 'red or brown castle'.

The city of Cordoba in Andalucia, Southern Spain, provides the setting for the first part of Book 3 of my Sons of Kings series, Wyvern of Wessex. It takes place in the mid 9th century when Cordoba was the main city in what was then called al-Andalus.

I've just been notified today that the third book in my Sons of Kings series, Wyvern of Wessex, has won the 2019 Award in the Historical Fiction category. To say I'm delighted would be putting it mildly. I've been singing and dancing all afternoon.

Doddington Hall is a family home about seven miles from the city of Lincoln, UK. It was built between 1593 and 1600. The hall has a large estate on which Christmas trees have been grown grown for sixty-one years, and a careful programme of planting/replanting is carried out. We've bought our tree from here for many years now, and earlier today we bought our usual seven-foot spruce.

Today we visited Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire again. Having posted twice about this fabulous old priory earlier this year, I won't go into its history here except to say that it was the home of the poet Lord Byron between 1808 and 1814. Our visit today was purely to see the way it has been decorated for Christmas.

Earlier this evening we headed into Lincoln to visit the German-style Christmas market, an annual event held over the first full weekend of December (this year, Dec 5 - 8). It has become one of the biggest Christmas markets in Europe, regularly attracting 250,000 visitors. Stalls stretch out across an area of 'Uphill' Lincoln around the cathedral and castle known as the Cathedral Quarter, which makes everything so atmospheric, especially as it grows dark. There is always a funfair too, to keep both children and adventurous adults happy. The Big Wheel and other high-flying rides are not my thing, but are very popular with many.

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