Light and lumière

We're back from England, following the traditional pre-Christmas trip to visit friends and family.  A nasty cold put a bit of a damper on things, but didn't prevent us from enjoying seeing everyone.   I was dead impressed with the brother-in-law's VR setup.  He uses it for car racing, but showed me what it could do with flight simulation.  Very fine.  I could even drive the cars, much better that when I tried on the old screen-based system.

Our friends in Wimbledon were in fine form, and introduced us to The Giggling quid, an excellent Thai restaurant there.  We also saw the BBC programme The Repair Shop, that struck us as a nice programme, a bit like Antiques Roadshow in its connections between people and objects.

We visited the Christmas at Kew light show.  They illuminate trees and areas with different light displays, some static, some changing.   You walk along a defined walkway between the different displays, and it was very impressive.  Definitely worth a visit, and we were lucky in that it was cold, but not windy or raining.   I bought some chilli seeds for the B-I-L.

Once back in France, it was time for the traditional festive lights in Laval.  The town is decorated, and you just wander about looking at the lights.  Again cold, but with a bit of rain on and off.

A different style but effective, all the same.