I spent my winter holidays in Japan, as we have not visited my wife's family for two years. Unlike the other visits in Japan, this time we decided to change planes in London, United Kingdom. In Christmas time, the plane tickets are going skyrocketing, but we found a cheap window on the Christmas Eve - 24th of December. Setting the long flight (London-Tokyo) in this day, the full price of the ticket met our budget and we even decided to fly from Geneva to London the last working Friday of the year - 21st of December: a result of 3 days in London.

We later discovered that you cannot find cheap hotels in London, at least not on Christmas time. We decided for a Youth Hostel - one of the most expensive of this type that I've stayed at, and probably with the worst conditions ...