Christmas Adventures

Christmas Adventures, Bristol’s festive light trail, is lighting up iconic buildings until the 28 December with a selection of the jolliest Christmas lyrics and phrases.

The project, created by Bristol City Centre BID and Redcliffe & Temple BID, has lit up buildings across the city from Arnolfini and Temple Quay and from Cabot Circus and Waitrose on Queen’s Road. Expect glowing building frontages, famous song lyrics and Christmas movie quotes across the city centre.

The project is part of Bristol City Centre BID’s #LoveBristol campaign which promotes the recovery of the city, bringing together 100s of businesses to help create the festive trail. New to this year is the partnership with Redcliffe and Temple BID, adding many new and iconic locations to the trail.

Expect the return of some of the big hits from last year including ‘Driving Home for Christmas’, ‘Bring us some figgy pudding’ and ‘Merry Christmas Ya Filthy Animal’ as well as a host of new Christmas songs and famous film quotes.

There is a downloadable trail map, which you can download here. Take in as many of the projections as you can. How many can you spot? The full list of Christmas Adventures locations are all below, with a fact about the location, song or phrase fact and a very special #MerryBristmas fact. So not only will you have lots of fun, you might learn something weird and wonderful about Bristol that you didn't already know!

Bristol City Centre BID Christmas lights will also be lit from the 15 November with over a mile of festive lighting and 25,000 LEDs, and new lights will adorn Park Street, and College Green. The displays also include King Street, Corn Street, Broadmead and Bristol Shopping Quarter.

Keep an eye out across social channels for more information. Share your photos using #ChristmasAdventures, #LoveBristol and of course #MerryBristmas. Let us know how many you've spotted and maybe which of our #MerryBristmas facts are your favourite. Some of them are quite tenuous!

We've also used Spotify to put together a playlist of songs of all the lyrics pojected in 2021, the perfect accompaniment to the trail. You might discover a version you haven't heard before or reminisce listening to some old favourites.