Festive Travels

For some, the Christmas holidays are a chance to spend quality time at home with friends and family but for others it provides an opportunity to travel and celebrate Christmas in a different country and culture and Google has the data on which festive destinations people are researching where to spend the yuletide season.
The analysis revealed that in 2024, the world’s most popular Christmastime destination is London and then the Austrian capital of Vienna, then the Czech capital of Prague.
Tokyo  was fourth, then New York, Budapest, Brussels, Edinburgh, Paris, Copenhagen, Shanghai and then Madrid.
I thought that if you asked most people in Europe where they would like to go you would get hot climates such as the Caribbean but it shows that most people buy into the snowy landscape of Christmas although in London we are more likely to see rain than the white stuff so that could be a bit of a disappointment.
To be almost guaranteed snow in Europe it would have to be one of the Scandinavian countries with a 70% chance of seeing snow in the last weeks of December or in the Alps bordering Austria, France and Italy but skip London if you are after snow as it has an 11% chance of snow and i would say even that is overly optimistic as the Met Office stretch the definition of a 'White Christmas' as a single snow flake falling on the roof of the Met Office building and the last time that happened was 2010.