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Article: London: a city with a holiday spirit.
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- Europe
- Article date:
- December 1, 1997
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Not even Ebenezer Scrooge, that old grouch, could be cynical about Christmas if he were in London these days. The city fairly hums with energy, glows with festive spirit, and radiates good fellowship. The Yuletide here comes with all the traditional trimmings, plus some playful extras, as if Santa Claus had sampled just enough punch to make him a little bit jollier than anywhere else.
The British capital has put the anxious times of the economic recession of the early 1990s firmly behind it and is now such a creative, lively, and feel-good place that it has been universally labeled as the "in" city in Europe. Paris may be elegant, Rome may be eternal, but London is ...