You're familiar with the egg and spoon race. Well how about the Christmas Pudding Race? Covent Garden Piazza swells with spectators as about 150 contestants don fancy dress and race around a course strewn with flour-filled balloons, foam jets and other obstacles - all while trying to balance a Christmas pudding on a flimsy plate! The race has been going on every year since 1980 and it raises money for Cancer Research. At this time of year Covent Garden is a great place to be, with shops full of Christmas decorations and street entertainers putting on some diverting shows before and after the main event. The perfect way to break up a day of Christmas shopping in Covent Garden's collection of stylish stores.
Great Christmas Pudding Race
Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E 8RF
Saturday 4th December 2010 - TO BE CONFIRMED
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Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E 8RF
Saturday 5th December 2009
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Bow Street, Covent Garden, Westminster, WC2E 9DE
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2 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
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4 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
Positioned between the City’s Square Mile and the thriving West End, this grand, Edwardian Hilton hotel welcomes guests with a patisserie and champagne bar in ... More
2 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
After a two-year, £22 million refurbishment the London Transport Museum reopened on 22 November 2007 revealing more exhibition space than before. The museum travels back ... More
2 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
After a two-year, £22 million refurbishment the London Transport Museum reopened on 22 November 2007 revealing more exhibition space than before. The museum travels back ... More
Belgium's finest export, the first Godiva was opened in Brussels approximately 75 years ago by master chocolatier Joseph Draps and named after the legendary Lady ... More
The Chez Gerard chain's most impressive dining area has to be this 1930s Parisian style conservatory restaurant with an alfresco section that overlooks the Covent ... More
1 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
Taking inspiration from Japanese ramman-noodle bars, Wagamama is the ultimate in high-quality, fast food. Huge bowls of steaming, soupy noodles, chicken dumplings with a chilli-soy ... More
6 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
The Courtauld is one of the most prestigious art schools in the country, affiliated with the Oxbridge system and boasting a huge private location and ... More
6 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
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1 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
This day spa exclusively for women is a total pampering experience from the minute you step through the door. Located in bustling Covent Garden you'll ... More
5 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
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Overlooking Covent Garden Piazza, the Cove is a world away from the crowds outside. Tucked up in a worn, leather armchair under the pub’s low, ... More
10 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
Concealed in a particularly squalid and touristy corner of Piccadilly Circus is Rumba, the bar that has kept the UK's Urban scene alive in the ... More
11 minutes walk from Great Christmas Pudding Race 2009
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You're familiar with the egg and spoon race. Well how about the Christmas Pudding Race? 
