It's been a number of years since I went on a coach trip but when I saw that a local company had a trip to Bristol Christmas market with a stop for a carvery meal on the return journey I booked myself on it.
Bristol Is somewhere I've wanted to visit for a while, It's always mentioned as being a nice place to shop with a variety of independent shops so I was really surprised to discover that It wasn't at all what I expected. Cabot Circus and The Galleries did have some different shops than we have locally but The Arcade which supposedly had independent shops turned out to be mostly nail, hair and beauty shops. Although It was nice to explore new shops the main reason for the trip was the Christmas Market.
What a disappointment. I imagined walking round and getting into the Christmas spirit with perhaps a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie, ha!
Seems you can put up a tree, a few Santa statues and some wooden huts and call it a Christmas Market. None of the stalls were selling anything really Christmas related, there was a stand selling jewellery another selling wooden items and one selling those bohemian ceramics and the rest was made up of food and drink. The prices for food was ridiculous, loaded chips were £8.99 and churros £7, a burger was about the same. Needless to say I didn't buy anything to eat, nor was there anything else I wanted to buy. I initially thought the four hours we were there wouldn't be long enough, turned out that It was quite long enough!
But, we had a carvery on the way back to look forward to, and thankfully that was wonderful and the highlight of the day.
Will I visit Bristol again? Well not for the shopping but I would probably like to do a sightseeing trip sometime in the future.
For now I'm in search of a much more Christmassy experience.
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2 comments:
If you can go during the week, visit Bath Christmas Market. It's really pretty with plenty of stalls, I wouldn't advise visiting on a weekend though as it gets jam packed and you can't hardly move.
I've not been to Bristol since the 80's, so when I read the beginning of your post, I thought it must have changed, but no sounds as bad as it ever was.
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