More Christmas lights

Last week when we were in Saint Gervais  we got to do our second set of Christmas lights this year, the first being the ones in the Malaga Botanical Gardens I wrote about here.

Every year like a lot of places Saint Gervais has its own Christmas lights, but in addition for a week before Christmas these lights are augmented by a subset of the lights from the Festival of Light in Lyon.

Saint Gervais just opened a new cultural centre and this was all lit up with one of the light displays from Lyon outside it.

It has become a bit of theme this year that some form of precipitation is falling from the sky whilst visiting lights, tomorrow we are heading to Windsor Great Park for the lights there, lets see what happens with those. In saint Gervais it was sleeting as opposed to the rain we had in Malaga.

A lot of places have cut back their lights this year due to the economic climate, be that the size or the hours they operate in Saint Gervais at least the light show is the same size as ever and operates the same times it has done for many years, that said they have always been very cost conscious and like a lot of the lights in Spain they are re-used with additions and are an all LED affair to keep the overall running costs down.

In previous years there has been a nice dusting of snow on the ground which has made it feel a lot more like Christmas than this year. Whilst the Lyon lights will have gone by New Year, the village lights will still be up and hopefully we can have one of those snowy New Years Eve events with lights and fireworks.