insideKENT Magazine Issue 80 - November 2018 | Page 75

CHRISTMAS
So Many Festive Events…
So Little Time
YOU CAN’T AVOID IT ANYMORE – CHRISTMAS IS COMING, AND COMING SOON!
LOVE IT OR HATE IT (AND WE DO HOPE YOU LOVE IT), THERE’S BOUND TO BE A FILLED-
WITH-HOLIDAY-CHEER EVENT OR TWO THAT WILL GET YOU FULLY OUT OF SCROOGE
MODE AND INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. FROM PANTOS TO LIGHT SWITCH-ONS, TO
SPECTACULAR WINTER WONDERLAND FAIRS, KENT HAS ENOUGH CHRISTMASSY EVENTS
DURING THE NEXT FEW MONTHS TO BRING OUT THE BOB CRATCHIT IN ANYBODY!
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Christmas Family Fun at Hempstead Valley // from 12 Nov
Canterbury Lights Switch On and Christmas Market // 16 Nov
From 12th November,
the centre’s
sparkling
rose IT
gold
Christmas
YOU
CAN’T
AVOID
ANYMORE
–
decorations and lights will be switched on throughout the centre,
IS tree
COMING,
including a towering CHRISTMAS
25-foot Christmas
outside M&S. AND
From 9am. Price: COMING
Free
year will
the arrival
of Canterbury’s
biggest
market,
SOON! LOVE IT OR HATE IT This
(AND
WE see DO
HOPE
YOU LOVE
IT), Christmas
THERE’S
Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre, Gillingham ME7 3PD
just in time for the Christmas lights switch on. The wooden huts will
BOUND TO BE A FILLED-WITH-HOLIDAY-CHEER
EVENT OR TWO THAT WILL GET
www.hempsteadvalley.com / 01634 387076
be opening their shutters providing locally produced food, drink and
YOU FULLY OUT OF SCROOGE MODE
AND
INTO
THE
SPIRIT.
FROM
gifts.
As it is
a special
day, CHRISTMAS
they will be staying
open until
8pm, so you
can warm up with a mulled wine after you have seen the city illuminated.
PANTOS TO LIGHT SWITCH-ONS, TO SPECTACULAR
WINTER WONDERLAND FAIRS,
From 10am (lights switch on from 4pm). Price: Free
Gravesham’s Christmas 2018 // weekends from 16 Nov
KENT
HAS
ENOUGH
CHRISTMASSY
EVENTS ON IN THE NEXT
Canterbury City Centre
Come to
www.canterburychristmasmarket.co.uk
FEW
MONTHS
TO BRING OUT THE BOB CRATCHIT IN
Gravesend
and
enjoy a
ANYBODY!
spectacular start
Christmas Gift Fayre
to your
// from 19 Nov
Christmas.
Weekends of
The ever-popular two-
festivities and
week long Christmas gift
Christmas
fayre returns from 19th
sparkles will
November until 2nd
delight all the
December. Once again the
family. Watch the
malls will be filled with
streets and
speciality stalls, selling a
Gravesham’s tree
wide variety of traditional
light up in the lantern parade and meet the cast of the local panto. Enjoy
and unique gifts. Whilst
Christmas-themed markets and events in the warmth of Gravesend
shoppers are visiting this
Borough Market with music, food and dancing too. Experience the
free event, they can enter
nativity story retold and carols around the tree. And while here come
a competition for their
and enjoy the Christmas experience – just follow the snowy footprints
chance to win a Christmas
as you pass the golden reindeer in the Market and enter a magical
hamper.
world.
From 9am. Price: Free
Various times. Price: Free
Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre, Gillingham ME7 3PD
Gravesend Town Centre
www.hempsteadvalley.com / 01634 387076
www.visitgravesend.co.uk/whats-on/christmas-in-gravesend
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