Visiting Christmas lights this time of year in any town or city is a fantastic ‘thrifty’ activity.
We’ve been working our way round Norwich City Centre on foot, enjoying the castle projections, tunnel of light- which continually offers at least 20 minutes if not more of excitement as we watch it work through the differing lighting cycles, the wonderful forum lights and the Christmas tree festival at St Peter Mancroft to mention just a few highlights.
Christmas tree festivals are becoming increasingly popular and we’ve visited a few in the past years, Fakenham is another really lovely one to visit, as are the town lights which are really beautiful too. It’s a lovely activity to take all the spare coppers we have and give the kids two tubs to take round the trees and pop in the charity collection boxes of the trees they like. Generally we end up putting something in each one as we don’t like leaving anyone out!
Another evening activity we tend to enjoy this time of year is a drive around our neighbourhood to look at the houses with Christmas lights, we have created a map with all the best ones on which we add to every year. Thorpe St Andrew in Norwich have lovely lights by the river which are definitely worth a look and there is one of our favourite houses near-by, hope you have fun searching for that one!
We’ve discovered lots of great places to drive through looking at Christmas lights including Rackheath, Attleborough and Wymondham to name but a few! We’ve found this one of the best activities to really get us all in the festive mood.
Thrifty Norfolk Mummy 