Christmas Break - Skegness

Spend the Christmas Holidays in Skegness or take a short Christmas Break and you will see what Skegness has to offer everyone.

Skegness is a vibrant town on the East coast of Lincolnshire in the United Kingdom. Many people of many different cultural backgrounds come here over the Christmas Holidays. This diversity of people means there are lots of different Christmas traditions in Skegness.

The Eastern Lincolnshire town of Skegness is known all over for its hospitality over the Christmas and New year Holidays. Many of Christmas fir trees are grown locally. It really is the start of the Christmas holiday, when you are travelling home with a tree picked and cut by you. You know it's the begin of the Christmas season and there is no better place to be than Skegness at Christmas.

Christmas Carol singing is still done by some groups of people collecting for charities. The Rotary Club have a wonderful carol singing concert in the Embassy Centre.

Market Rasen Racecourse host a very special horse racing day each Boxing day and many people travel the 45 miles from Skegness to be there.

The Embassy Theatre in Skegness are running many shows over the Christmas period, including Snow White. Click here for more details

People in Skegness send Christmas Cards and give gifts to friends and family Many people walk from door to door handing out there Christmas cards on the run up to the Christmas Holidays.

A Lincolnshire tradition is to open a gift or two on Christmas Eve. Some only open their stocking on Christmas Eve. Others choose one gift to open, then save the rest until Christmas Day.

Many of Lincolnshire's children also believe in Santa Claus.

Lincolnshire families have cookie-baking parties. They bring a recipe for Christmas cookies, bake them and then exchange them with the members of their family. Each family, at the end of the party goes home with a variety of different cookies to enjoy over the Christmas season.

Some families have a huge feast on Christmas Eve that lasts well into the early hours of Christmas morning.

In parts north of the county, many families eat fish caught off the shores in the North Sea, for their Christmas dinner instead of the traditional turkey or ham. Myself, I am a bit of a traditionalist and it's always turkey for me.

At Christmas children in Skegness eat sweets and barley candy twists! Barley Candy is usually on a stick and is shaped like Santa, reindeer, snowmen, a tree and other symbols of Christmas.

Christmas in Skegness is the time to be charitable.

So book your Christmas Break in Skegness Now!

 

 

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