"Magical birds and festive feathers" is the theme of the Christmas decorations at Leeds Castle this year, and that is not all that visitors can find at Leeds Castle for the Christmas season. A Christmas market is also on the lawn in front of the castle, and it has several wooden buildings where visitors can buy gifts, food, drink, listen to live music, and use the fairground rides. The castle's rooms are decorated and can be seen until January 1st, but the Christmas market is only on weekends until the 15th of December.
Along with the "birds and feathers" theme, younger visitors to the castle can count the number of birds in each room after admiring the decorations, such as a group of blackbirds escaping from a pie or a group of owls outside bird cages. There are also robins and bird feathers adorning the boquets of flowers or creating wreaths.
The Christmas market sold treats, such as cupcakes and samples of items to try and then buy as gifts. I also had a hot chocolate, which came with a cute gingerbread man and a candy cane.
The walk back to the car was sunny with these golden leaves clinging onto the trees and nice views of the castle from the other side of the lake.
When I arrived, there was a layer of frost in the little shaded enclosure on both sides of the stream going into the parkland. It was a cold morning, and the frost failed to melt even though it was past 11:00 in the morning.
Have you ever been to Leeds Castle at Christmas?
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