Finnish Christmas Fair
The Finnish Church in London organises the annual Finnish Christmas Fair. It usually falls near December where people can go get some nice Finnish food to celebrate Christmas. This year, the Finnish Church based out in Canada Water is under renovation. So they had the food fair set up in the Sunborn Yacht Hotel (It's a stationary yacht that is used as a hotel).
The weekend before last, the husband and I went out to Prince Regent, Docklands, to shop for yummy Finnish food. We set off merrily thinking that the fair would be a whole day affair and there won't be any worries about a crowd by the time we arrived.
But hey, we were rather wrong. And suppose we would never have guessed that there was such a big Finnish population in London! We were in a queue for almost 45 minutes before we finally got into the hotel, and it was freaking cold on that day too! What fun. It's all to get you into the Christmas mood you know.
This was what we had to go through before getting onto that yacht:
In the end, it was all worth it. We got home with 2 big bags of goodies. They had all sorts of everything from traditional food like casseroles, reindeer meat, rye bread, salmon, sausages, cheese, mustard, jam. And they also had a small section of handicrafts on sale.
Wish we could have almost everything they have on sale! I guess we were wise not to have splurged as we are only the 2 of us.
The weekend before last, the husband and I went out to Prince Regent, Docklands, to shop for yummy Finnish food. We set off merrily thinking that the fair would be a whole day affair and there won't be any worries about a crowd by the time we arrived.
But hey, we were rather wrong. And suppose we would never have guessed that there was such a big Finnish population in London! We were in a queue for almost 45 minutes before we finally got into the hotel, and it was freaking cold on that day too! What fun. It's all to get you into the Christmas mood you know.
This was what we had to go through before getting onto that yacht:
In the end, it was all worth it. We got home with 2 big bags of goodies. They had all sorts of everything from traditional food like casseroles, reindeer meat, rye bread, salmon, sausages, cheese, mustard, jam. And they also had a small section of handicrafts on sale.
Wish we could have almost everything they have on sale! I guess we were wise not to have splurged as we are only the 2 of us.
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