Lumiere London 2018 part one

January is a cruel beast. The memory of Christmas is fading but the days are short and daylight is scarce to say the least. So I was delighted to hear that the Lumiere Festival was back. The first festival was back in January 2016 and OH and I loved it, but so did everyone else and the streets became too overcrowded as too many people turned up. So after a year away they put on another festival with a much larger footprint meaning that OH and I had a lot further to walk!

 We started in Granary Square just behind Kings Cross for The Wave which was a mind boggling swirl of smoke and strobe lighting. Now I must apologise in advance as my camera decided to play up and so these aren't the best photos....

 Also in Granary Square was this interactive moving beast of lights dancing to the music. It was mind boggling but the photo doesn't really do it any justice! If you go to this link on my Instagram feed you can see a video of it and you'll see what I mean!

 We rather foolishly decided to walk from Kings Cross over to Tottenham Court Road. Not normally a long walk but the night was young and we still had a long way to go.

 Anyway this rather delightful cube also reacted to human touch which is always satisfying. 

 And onwards this time to a rather trippy sphere hanging above Oxford Circus 

 I love and hate it when they close major streets as it always feels so unnatural walking down the middle of the road. 

 Our next stop on our mammoth walk was South Molten Street for these see-saws which drew a crowd

 By now our legs were really beginning to hurt. I'd been suffering from various ailments from October to early January so I was out of the habit of walking far, and even OH who cycles everyday to work said his feet were hurting. We were a little disappointed by this installation which was close to Grosvenor Square. Ah well you can't win them all. 

And so to our final destination for the evening just outside the Connaught Hotel in swanky Mayfair

This was another interactive one where you were given a stick and each section made a different note so you could in theory play music on them. 

Sadly no tunes were heard during our brief visit but it sounded good. And there we have it - part one which was the first evening of the Festival. Day two to follow soon.... I promise!