Lumiere festival London

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London hosted a winter Lumiere (light) festival at the end of January which I had been hoping to go to. Famous landmarks throughout the city were lit up for three nights and the results were quite spectacular. It looks as if this is going to be an annual event so hopefully I will be able to attend next year but sadly because I had a detached retina the week before I was unable to see out of my left eye so could not attend. I had made arrangements with some friends to meet in London after work on the Friday so we could do a trek around the Capital to see these displays and then go to dinner somewhere. One very impressive photos is of the 1000 year old Westminster Abbey near the Houses of Parliament. A very beautiful building without the lighting but as you can see in the photo it is even more impressive lit up. There are some magnificent photos about this event. I have used one freely available on the internet hopefully next year I will be able to share my own photos. Fingers crossed for next January. One of the places I would love to go one January is the ice festival in Harbin, China where the make sculptures out of ice which are then lit up with colourful lights, When I say sculptures I am talking about life size buildings built of solid blocks of ice in a large park in the city centre. Mind you it is incredibly cold there so you would need to wear several layers of clothing.