the toy store is Hamleys first opened in 1760

Btw, the tree at Trafalgar Square has been the gift of the Norwegian capital, Oslo, each year since 1946, in thanks for allowing the Norwegian king and his family to have safe haven in England during the country's Nazi occupation.

NYC is built on a block format, whereas London has grown organically and has small alleys and shopping areas tucked away in surprising places.

London is bigger than New York City. In fact, London is twice the size of New York City. London has a size of 606 square miles and New York has a size of 301 square miles. London looks so different because it is old and was built over centuries.

Covent Garden was the historic fruit, veg and flowers market in central London. The market moved out of the centre in the 1970s and the buildings were turned into restaurants, pubs, entertainment places etc

Fortnum and Mason is one of the oldest continuously operating department stores in the world - opened in 1707.

European cities are generally very different to US ones, they’re are very walkable and liveable rather than somewhere you commute to to go to work

Hi guys ,London is HUGE!!! This is a tiny tour 😂 Yes we have many casinos lol ❤

John Lewis christmas adverts are absolutely top tier. They win most years. Especially "man on the moon" probably there best ever. You should also show lindsey the London new year fireworks. P.s, London is larger than new York lol. The UK doesn't really have casino's, we have like a betting shop where you can bet on football etc and have a few fruit machines. Gambling is heavily regulated in UK.

The telephone company (BT) removed most of the telephone boxes, but many towns and villages refused to allow removal because it takes away the character, some places have even demanded the return of the boxes They are used for things like mini libraries or places to keep a defibrilator etc There are even phone box coffee shops.

London is HUGE and much larger than New York. This vlogger is WALKING so you are only seeing a tiny part of the City Centre which is the expensive part of London; but the majority of London boroughs have standard department stores. The architecture is typical of Europe and goes back to centuries before America was discovered and most of London was rebuilt after the Great Fire in 1660.

Yes the red telephone boxes are still in place all over the UK (some are listed so cannot be removed). Not all of them still have working phones in them as they are not disabled accessible so more open lower phone booths have replaced them. However many are still phone boxes with modern pay phones in them and some have been repurposed to hold defibrillators or become book holders where you can leave books you’ve read for other people to take and read for free and then they pass on once they’ve read them. In the touristy central London areas they are proper phone boxes because so many tourists want photos in them.

Every year us kids used to be taken to see the Christmas lights, and visit Hamleys toy shop.

If you like lights like this, you should check out The Blackpool Illuminations. They are not Christmas lights as they begin in August, and last for 100 days. They stretch for 6 miles along the Promenade (the road along the sea). It includes over 1 million bulbs.

I was in London last week, decorations were out of this world, so magical.

When you stopped the video to ask about the name of the toy store. The name was literally on the screen a few seconds before.

What you need to remember is London is HUGE! The first half of the video is only parts of the West End. This is in the centre of London. To go to Greenwich means a Taxi, Tube, River (Uber) Boat, and will take at least 30 mins to get there. To go to the "City" again is a different area of London and will take a decent amount of time.

the reason that there are so many video's on the London decorations is because it is where most tourist head too in the UK. all the major UK city's are decorated and have Christmas markets. Hamley's toy shop was advertized on the open topped Bus (3:58) seconds before you stopped the video to ask about the toy store was called. lol

The light trails in Wisley gardens, longleat and Kew gardens are amazing, there are loads of light trails at Christmas in the UK, they are magical.x

Most if not all towns and cities in The UK decorate their streets and shops at Christmas time. Every village and town area has their own Christmas tree lighting ceremony. Christmas is a big thing here 😊

I LIVE in London and have visited many US city's over the years (including NY). London is MASSIVE in comparison to New York! London stretches over about twice as much as NY. I think MOST cities in the world have their CORE centre parts _(that the majority of tourists visit),_ but London has SO MANY places to see. TBH: Just the sheer number of museums, theatres, art galleries, private exhibitions, parks, gardens, statues, works of art, fountains and other places to visit would probably take you YEARS to see all. After over 30 + years in London, I have STILL only seen a TINY fraction of the things to see!

I was in London last week and walking down Oxford street and under the winged angels was so fabulous. I’m going back 21st December so it will feel very christmasy ❤

As a Londoner born and raised I can say that Yes, it’s always busy in Londons ‘west end’ especially though at Christmas with everyone shopping and tons of tourists making it busy! I worked on Oxford Street for 10 years and it’s crazy at Christmas. There are a lot of stores that put in their own light displays and pay for it. Covent Garden is ancient and used to be a convent back in the day. It’s a wonderful place to hang out in summer. My daughter and I would hang out and watch the outdoor entertainers. We do Christmas well. Halloween not so much, thankfully! It’s the most evil day of the year. My opinion. Hamley’s IS the famous toy store. The hat shop sells mostly handmade. Our alleyways are ancient and you find tiny shops there that are so charming. The Odeon was a club in the 80’s where I used to go every Saturday to dance the night away! Sometimes walking home barefooted, after dancing all night! lol! The buildings that you enjoy Steve are a couple of hundred years old, not ancient. Lyndsey, London is one of, if not the most expensive city’s in the world, just saying. Steve’s right. Every expensive, luxury item is sold here in London. It costs a fortune to live here and it’s not easy for all Londoners to thrive. To buy a house in London, you have to be wealthy or have parents with deep pockets or take on a massive mortgage! I live in council property, thankfully but if I wanted to buy, it would cost £800 THOUSAND because of my central location and grade listed building (highly desirable) There are decorations for all tastes here. You need to check out some famous shops. Harrods, selfridges, etc

Pretty as it all looks and it is pretty with all the decorations and lights, my experience of London at Christmas was that it was so stressful, very crowded (more than this video shows), so much to the point on Oxford street they had police telling you when to cross the roads at various points and on The Tube it was so busy that you didn't have time to stop and think where you needed to go. The food was so expensive and I was aware of pick pockets too. Now this could be any city in any country in the world as pick pockets are no exception to London, but for me I've done London at Christmas once and I'm fine with that. Oh and as with any big city any time of the year always wear comfortable foot ware as you will be on your feet all day walking between places.

Every child should have the Hamley’s experience at some point. It’s other worldly! The doll houses are incredible.

As others have said below the John Lewis ads are consistently great and deserve their own compilation reaction. I never thought a TV advert could make me cry but they've made it happen. But that's not to say other companies have not made some classics... Sainsbury's - "1914" (2014) Irn Bru - "Phenomenal Christmas" aka The Snowman (2007) Marks and Spencers - "Christmas with love from Mrs Claus" (2016) Boots - "Special Because" (2014) Sainsbury's - "Mog’s Christmas Calamity" (2015)

The toy shop is Hamleys. My kids are all adults now but my parents used to take them and their cousins to London every Christmas to go to Hamleys, see the lights and visit Father Christmas in Selfridges (a big department store). They took mr and my siblings when we were children too. Fond family memories 😊

To be honest, Christmas markets aren't really a traditional thing here in the UK. It's only in recent years that they've started to become popular. If you want to see REAL Christmas markets, you need to go to countries like Germany. The Christmas markets we do have here often tend to have a German theme, which goes to show you their real origins!

After much of old London was destroyed in the Great Fire in 1666, a decision was finally made to, basically, be built back as it had been! Nearly all the old narrow streets and buildings were put back as they had been and still exist today.

They convert the Phone boxes into things like Libraries, coffee stand's, medical points etc.

Yes, London is always that busy.

As others have said Christmas markets are a relatively new thing to the UK, springing up in almost every city over the last 10 years or so. In my city we have a victorian Christmas fayre (going for 40 years or so). Lots of market stalls, fairground and food. The stall holders dress up as Victorians and people come from all over the country. I used to love it as a child but not so appealing as a 30 something with no children 😅 I unexpectedly had a free evening last week and walked around the St James area looking at all the lights on the designer shops. The displays were amazing and the buildings were so beautiful. Fortum and Mason is worth looking at, they had an advent calendar number on each window. Lots of the telephone boxes have been converted, in my city they are often cash machines.

Covent Garden used to be the vegetable and fruit wholesale market in London. The building dates back to 1830. The market relocated to a more accessible site in 1974. The building was listed and saved from redevelopment and reopened as a shopping centre in 1980.

A theatre isnt movies, thats a cinema.. Theatres put on plays and musicals...

John lewis christmas adverts are the absolute best. But at christmas time is when we most enjoy the adverts 😊

I loved you reaction to the lights. Worked in London for 20 years, mostly in Mayfair so I know these places like the back of my hand. miss those days and wish I had appreciated them more. it does my heart good to see the city so busy and vibrant after the strange empty place that i saw during lockdown.

If you enjoy British architecture, quaint side streets and Christmas lights I'd definitely recommend you looking at York at Christmas. Very very old architecture, the stunning cathedral and 'the shambles' which are cobbled side street with such old buildings they are actually wonky. It's stunning and so full of history and character.

toy store is Hamleys. The Sainsbury's ad of 2014 very special. It's based on a real event during the 1914-18 World War. I have a feeling you have seen it though Steve, but if you don't mind seeing it again ......

Christmas at Kew. Absolutely worth finding a video about. Kew Gardens is well worth a visit at any time of year, but when they've got their Christmas lights up it's really something special.

Walking the West End of London at night in the run up to Christmas is one of life’s joys. Truly. The ugly buildings are left unlit, the beautiful ones perfectly illuminated and all of a sudden you’re in one of the most beautiful cities on earth - a feeling that’s hard to believe when you’re in the cold grey 5 hours of daylight. And if it’s cold, well that’s what all the pubs are for :)

I've seen a compilation of John Lewis Christmas ads , most big stores make mini epics each year . The street lights are usually provided by the Council but the stores do their own . Sadly Christmas isn't what it was in many other places as several big stores have closed since covid .Many London shops , especially the luxury ones are long established and it's a day out for shoppers so they seem relatively unaffected .

You should react to the Birmingham Frankfurt German Christmas market, one of the biggest in Europe and definitely the best, most visited in the UK…. It’s absolutely brilliant… Birmingham was the only UK city that made it in a list of most Christmassy cities in Europe this year also… 🎅🏽🍻🕺🏼🥳

London is a very beautiful city and it’s absolutely huge, but yes, because of its age, there are so many cute streets and alleyways round every turn, and it’s doesn’t feel anything like as big as it is when you’re exploring. The Strand is another fabulous area to visit.

Liberty's is my favorite in London, all the staircases and balconies are carved oak and very, very old, It's a black and white timber building and is beautiful all year but the Christmas decorations are special

Tim makes some great travel videos! Really informative for tourists. And yes my home town of London is absolutely the most beautiful city at Christmas 🥰. The toy store is Hamleys and it’s every kids dream but it’s soooooo over priced

The toy store is Hamleys, the world's largest toy store.

In many towns and cities telephone boxes are often used to house mobile defibrillators. In many small towns and villages people set the up as mini libraries/book exchanges, and other similar things. I haven’t seen one with a working phone for a long time.

Welcome to the West End of Central London! He started on Regent Street, then the first Department store (on Oxford Street) is Selfridges. That whole run of windows is their Christmas Display. Then he went to Covent Garden and the piazza is very famous. However, the market was originally well known for flowers and food so you see they reflect that history on the tree with the fresh fruit and spices. Then he went to Leicester Square. All of the areas he's walked around so far is actually all very walkable. Each station name denotes an old village or town area in London which is why each area looks a little different. This area is also called Theatreland which is why there are loads of street performers. The area itself is mostly around 17th Century from memory. New Bond Street is very exclusive and yes just like the Rodeo Drive type stores there. I lived there for 16 years and love London so much. And yes Lindsay, they do have some really good charity shops if you know where they are! So many designer outfits can be found at really good prices. Not in season but still great items usually worn once.

Halloween has been celebrated in the UK for over a thousand years in one form or another during pagan times and Christian .It arrived in the the US from the UK .

They were Gambling in London and Paris before America was a Country.

Hi another good video thank you. People do not realise how HUGE London is, when most tourist think of London, they are really thinking about Central London, which is much smaller and is where most of the touristy stuff is. The video you just reacted to is all in central London. Regent St, Oxford St, Trafalgar Sq, Covent garden, Leicester Sq, etc are all within walking distance of each other. Trafalgar square is also near the Houses of Parliament, the Embankment, etc. All these area have great Christmas lights etc. But London itself, the actual main city, is made up of 32 boroughs (each run by there own Council) and straddles both North and South of the River Thames, which also runs through central London. Its worth looking at a Map and seeing large London is, when compared to just the inner central London bit. Cheers 8-)

Covent garden is no longer a market but more of a novelty place all year round, it has bars restaurants and street perfomers that are good fun in it's own unique and cool vibe.

Just a quick note, Steve and everyone, please watch Hannah Ricketts channel. At the moment she is doing Vlogmas, a view of London's streets, hotels and stores at Christmas, but she also does many walking vlogs round London the rest of the year. I am a proud Londoner, born and bred, who loves seeing my home town as it is now. So many memories. This recent video you watched is a few years old I think. One of the little towns near me has a large statue that miraculously gets dressed for Christmas. We also have our knitters that decorate post boxes etc too. You really have to get into the mind-set that the UK is tiny compared to you, probably not as big as the state you live in. Also please remember that UK was bombed to hell in WW2 so there are lots of modern buildings alongside old and extremely old. All our large cities are like that.❤❤❤👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌲🌲🌲

Bond Street and New Bond street are different streets, hence why the word New is in it. Americans seem to not understand this, as I live in Jersey and they always think I mean New Jersey. I then have to explain that Jersey is in the Channel Islands which is British and 16 miles off the coast of France. the reason New Jersey is called that, is because our Governor founded New Jersey.

Hope you all have a lovely Christmas. Looking forward to next year’s videos

Covent Garden in pre reformation times was a convent. After the dissolution of the monasteries the convent went and the name gradually became Covent garden.

Check out the Edinburgh Xmas Market. Voted the most beautiful in the UK this year 😊

Most if not all major Cities and large towns now have a walking/shopping area and I guess you could call them Outdoor Shopping Malls

I love your reactions - have a wonderful Christmas 🎄⭐️🤗🤗

birmingham christmas market is excellent👍

Good morning Steve and Lindsay! Glenn lives not far from me. Edenbridge is in Kent, which is next to my county Sussex. I used to go to Edenbridge a lot when I was little with my parents. They owned a caravan so we'd tow that behind us and go off for weekends. For a two-night camping trip, somewhere within an hour's driving was ideal, so we'd often go to Kent. For longer holidays we'd take the caravan on the ferry to France (only 26 miles from England) and spend a few nights in each of, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium etc. We'd also go to Scotland, Wales or all over England. Tudor England is my favourite period in history, and Anne Boleyn is one of the Tudor women I most admire. As Glenn told you, Hever Castle, (pronounced HEEE VER) is very close to Edenbridge and is one of my favourite places to visit. It was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. You should definitely check it out as it's soooo pretty, and set in beautiful grounds with a huge boating lake. During the Summer they hold jousting tournaments with reenactment actors and it's good fun to watch. They encourage all the children to yell and cheer for the blues or reds, and you can buy a kid's T-shirt in blue or red from the gift shop. Can't wait for you 3 to make it over. You are not gonna want to go home I promise you! And we probably won't let you leave anyway! 😁 xxx PS: The huge Christmas tree is a yearly gift from Oslo, Norway's capital, for England keeping their Royal Family safe during WWII. London is twice the size of New York, but has half as many residents. New York has Central Park, but London is covered in green spaces, tons of Royal Parks (former grounds of palaces given over to public to enjoy) plus lots of other parks, trails, nature reserves, canal walks etc. Yes Hamleys is the famous toy store. Harrod's, John Lewis, Selfridge's etc are all department stores, mostly featuring higher-end goods, particularly Harrod's! Although, even so, you can get some impressive luxury Christmas gifts in Harrods if you wanted to spoil someone special. Things like beautifully decorated keepsake Christmas tins full of biscuits, chocolates or sweet treats, for £20 or under. Yes, much more expensive than other similar products from cheaper stores, but still very reasonable for a luxury gift for a loved one. Yes most of London is walkable, depending on how far you can walk obviously. I couldn't do it these days due to illness, but I was up there walking it all just over a decade ago. You can walk from The South Bank, the strip along the Thames (pronounced TEMS) with the London Eye on, stroll along to Westminster Bridge, Cross the Thames looking directly at The Houses of Parliament and Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben). Behind those is Westminster Abbey. Keep walking until you get to St. James's Park, Green Park, and then Buckingham Palace. Behind and to the left ish of Buckingham Palace is the areas of Soho, Mayfair and Kensington, very rich areas, where you'll find Harrod's, Selfridge's, John Lewis, the Natural History Museum, Hyde Park etc. *BTW Hyde Park does a Winter Wonderland every Christmas, with ice skating rink, and the lights there are incredible and truly magical. Sophia would love it there! From Soho, you can continue right in a clockwise direction, circling back past Buckingham Palace, stroll up The Mall, and this will lead you to Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square, Chinatown, Covent Garden, and to the right is Charing Cross, leading you out to The Embankment, the strip beside the Thames, that is opposite where you started. If you wanted to walk ALL of that it would take you 2 hours or less, depending on tourist levels and if you get sidetracked looking at stuff, 😂. But, if you're in London for a week, this whole "loop" is where the majority of the tourist attractions are, so you could walk to one section every day, and visit a museum or shops or park etc per day. As an example, Big Ben to Buckingham Palace is easily walkable in under half an hour. Lastly, yes Lindsay, we do have Casinos! Don't believe the hype about us all being posh, British people work to live, not live to work, and our free time is very much spent enjoying ourselves! Family, friends, days out, picnics, pubs, restaurants, amusement arcades, theme parks, castles, seaside, funfairs, casinos, race tracks, nightclubs, social clubs....having fun is very much the point of our existence. 😂 Hope that answers most of your questions. xxxxx

Don't forget that London is not the only City in the UK. Unfortunately, most Americans seem to think so, it's like us thinking New York is the only City in America. We get most of the snow in northern England and Scotland, Edinburgh and Glasgow have great Xmas Markets.

London at Christmas is magical. As kids we were always taken in to town to catch a bus at Marble Arch,sit upstairs at the front and just do the bus route down Oxford st, regents st, Piccadilly etc. I moved Fortnum & Mason at Xmas too

London has grown as a collection of villages - I live here best city in the world so much to see and do with fantastic buildings and history

Hi, the toy store is called Hamleys

Always love your shows, thank you and Happy Christmas to the three of you :-)

You are two BEAUTIFUL SOULS

To be honest the local councils have been spending as much as the light so was much better last year but this year have only put up half the amount due to the financial crises especially as the electricity prices have gone through the roof.

The London Mare (mayor) prefers the name Winter Festival and encourages white public street lighting only, not traditional Christmas lights. so as not to offend others now forming the majority of people in our capital.

Excellent video both of you. Take care . Steve.

The Regent street lights are best viewed from the front seats up top of a double decker bus (after rush hour). London is like loads of little villages joined together. Each area has its own history and identity.

In the UK you will see pay phones everywhere across the country. We have an old law in the UK, that requires the national phone company to provide and maintain pay phones. So they can be used by any member of public, during an emergency.

London is massive

The Morrisons Xmas advert - this years -with the singing oven gloves (pot holders I believe you call them in the US) just makes me laugh lol

Hi guys, check out Brockham fireworks display, there are plenty of video's on KZfaq. Brockham is a tiny village in Surrey, near to Dorking and Reigate.. People come from miles away too see the best display in Southern England.. The area in Surrey is beautiful, there are loads of video's of walks and a lot of history.. I am from Reigate, although not living there now, I miss the Town of my birth..

London is twice the size of NEW YORK CITY,,,, so what is here is not just in one space ,,,,

I've been to both New York and London at Christmas. New York simply cannot compare to London. New York is pretty disappointing. It looks good in all the Christmas movies. But in reality it's pretty dull and soulless.

I live in Fife, Scotland and I just watched Clan Broonford's walk around the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. The lights in the Gardens are absolutely beautiful. Well worth watching.

London is very walkable! Many very old narrow streets. Some still cobbled. Most have been there since the rebuilding after the great fire of London. Some rebuilt after the Blitz. I have walked all over the centre.

really nice festive lights, pity a lot of people can't afford to keep their heating, lights, cookers. on because of Tory policy

Not one display showing the true reason we celebrate Christmas the birth of Christ, thanks Londoners especially you Khan.

London is made up of many small boroughs and it is magnificent at Christmas. Covent Garden is an area full of food stalls, entertainment a great place to spend time.

I live out in the countryside, but my partner and I are off for a weekend trip to London in about 20 minutes! Looking forward to it even more after watching this 😎 🎄

Hamleys is the famous London toy store in Regent Street. A big event when I was a child in the 60s was for my old dad to drive around London to see the Christmas lights.❤

Going up to London to see the Lights was a BIG treat when I was a kid. …a loooonng time ago now😂

I’ll be there on 23rd and 24th Dec this year. Can’t wait. London is so beautiful and busy at Christmas.

London's streetplan was originally laid out by the winding paths of cows to their watering holes sometimes thousands of years ago (hence why the city has so many 'circuses' where several streets meet). These natural paths became with time, roads then streets. The Great Fire of 1666 offered a new opportunity to build on straight lines but the king delayed and people soon rebuilt where their old houses once stood. The height regulations of the Victorian era also ensured that buildings didn't top the palaces, and the city is notorious for disliking highrises (it demolished 400 of them in the '80s and 90s), though they've now come roaring back. This has resulted in a city with more people than NYC, but on an intimate, human scale -its rare one ever gets a straight street or vista to gauge how huge the place actually is. Smaller cities like Manchester can sometimes feel bigger at street level (no height limit and grid plan), but London is absolutely mined with interest, in hidden nooks and corners, protected alleys, pocket parks and myriad art. It's said Paris -long London's rival -is the world's most beautiful city with its radial streets and unified, intricate design, but London is the world's most interesting. The mix of architecture is crazy. One thing that does remind people how big the city is are the crowds -although residential density is skewed by the city being one third parkland (in reality Brits endue the smallest average housing in the West, smaller than even the Japanese), the place still absolutely heaves, more than any city in the West. 20 million visitors come from abroad each year (often the highest number in the world) and something like 300 million daytrip in. Some tube stations have a capacity of 100,000 yet still close down every 5 days due to overcrowding, Oxford St alone gets 550,000 visitors each day, and the Soho entertainment district sees that each night. There are over 1 million stadium seats (and 6 mega stadia with 60,000-90,000 capacity) plus 1 million theatre seats. 7 international airports make it the worlds biggest hub, with up to 180 million passengers (2018).

After 1666 great fire, parts of London were built on a wide road, block type system. St Pauls Cathedral built by Sir Christopher Wren shows what could have been. However, the land was still owned by the previous owners and they wanted their buildings back asap, so they built what was there before, hence all the little lanes/ roads that were there. You can't put a good merchant/ baker/ farrier/ blacksmith/ tavern down! London is fascinating because of the architecture. It's been around for over 2000 yrs. There are still Roman walls in the City of London part.

I have lived in London all my life, but rarely ever go into Central London. I think though if I get time this year I might venture inside and see the Christmas lights. Great video,

He always tells you which store he is in ....... but you are so excited you talk over that part of the narration!

lol! Steve was so excited he paused the video and asked what the famous toy store is half a second after a bright red bus emblazoned with the word HAMLEYS all over it flashed up! (Harrods does have a really good toy department too. We used to go to both Harrods and Hamleys as kids and both blew us away!)

Covent Garden used to be a fruit, vegetable and flower market (think My Fair Lady), I used to work nearby and was often given a bunch of carrots. This market was trade and everything was in bulk, except my bunch of carrots. They moved the market to the other side of the Thames, at Nine Elms, in the 80s I believe. The area then became a sort of boutique shopping area with an assortment of cafes, restaurant's, the London Transport Museum was also there but I think that's been moved, not sure. The name of the market came from a convent that used to stand on that spot a few hundred years ago.

London ? Well, who isn`t familiar with being in London over here ? A few years back I was living in EIRE ( Republic of Ireland ) and went to Dublin about a week before Christmas Day. It was amazing. In St. Stephen`s Centre ( just next to St. Stephen`s Square in the centre of the city ) there was an entire - philharmonic - Orchestra playing Christmas carols and completely free of charge. Which is just as well - Dublin being an expensive city. But that Carol Service with that Orchestra was simply beautiful. It was quality to be both seen and heard.

Another great video. A lot of the phone boxes ( booths), in smaller towns and villages are still there but have defibrillators in them in case of a medical emergency. Some do still have telephones ( like where I live in the South). Happy Christmas to you all 🎄✌

Hamley's is the big toy store in London and you first paused your narration right on it at 3.59. Great to watch you guys enjoying the UK. See you when you get here! 🙂

What a lovely couple you are. Love the channel guys

enjoyable to see your reactions to the lights, and the famous Toy Store is Hamleys. Covent Garden was the original fruit and veg market of London, and now has shops and cafes, the lower area has daily entertainment with musicians and International Opera Singers from the Opera House performing, every time I visit London I make time to go to Covent Garden for a Coffee and to listen to the Singers

You're right, central London is a collection of historic neighbourhoods with different characters. London wasn't planned, it evolved. The Great Fire of London in 1666 gave the city the opportunity for a grand redesign but people objected and it was rebuilt mostly as it was.

Oh I seen someone on here do the John Lewis ads from 90s till now now ... I cried my eyes out 😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Hamleys, is the toy store you're thinking about. Merry Christmas.