Visiting the V&A Museum and Watching Ice Skating at the Natural History Museum

On Saturday we visited the Victoria and Albert Museum for the first time. Even though we have lived in London for over three years, we've never found the time, or the inclination, to visit.

The V&A is the world's largest Museum of Art and Design, it was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. It's just down the road from us in South Kensington, alongside the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum.

The museum is huge, and beautiful on the inside, with collections spanning over 5,000 years of art from all over the world.

Christmas Lights along Oxford Street and Regent Street

It's that time of year in London when the icy wind has appeared seemingly overnight, gloves, coats and scarves start appearing and it feels like the middle of the night at 4.00 p.m. in the afternoon.

It's always hard to go to work and come home in the dark, and having to stock up on cold and flu remedies as the first of my many Winter colds start arriving, but it's also the time of year when twinkling lights are strung up along the London's streets and the first of the Christmas ads start playing on TV.

Christmas in London is one of my favourite times of the year. Coming from New Zealand where we'll usually have a BBQ outside in the sunshine on Christmas Day, being in London where it's cold and often has the first snowfall before Christmas, it just seems more traditional and it's easy to start getting into the Christmas spirit as soon as Halloween has passed.

Earlier this week we went for a stroll along Oxford Street and Regent Street as they always have amazing light displays.