A very french christmas

All the villages, certainly in our region - but I believe across France - all present their own style of Christmas displays, based on a different theme. They put a lot of thought and work into the decorations throughout the village, building all sorts of displays. They’re not just all kinds of Father Christmas’, but nativity scenes and carefully painted wooden animals or Disney characters or just characters! They also like to use lots of shiny papers to make bows and flowers which they hang on trees throughout the village, which seems to be instead of using lights, maybe to save power. However, we have seen lights in some of the larger villages, and definitely the towns and cities. They also decorate the numerous Christmas trees they put up around the village with shiny bows and rosettes.

It’s lovely to see the creativity, and how they all seem to think up different ideas. It’s all very different from the UK, and I quite like how striking but simple it all is.