{"id":12699,"date":"2017-11-14T13:50:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12699"},"modified":"2017-11-14T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T13:50:40","slug":"wondering-what-to-give-your-true-love-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12699","title":{"rendered":"Wondering what to give your true love this Christmas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing what present to buy your loved one can be tough. But do you really want to give them a farm\u2019s worth of livestock and a party load of people?<\/p>\n<p>Pity the poor recipient in The Twelve Days of Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>This traditional English Christmas carol, first published in England in 1780, tells the story of a series of gifts from \u201cmy true love\u201d.\u00a0There have been a number of different versions of the lyrics over the centuries but all feature an ever growing list of animals birds and people.<\/p>\n<h2>Instead, why not give your true love the gift of adventure?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"ITE-Heading-Green P-2\"><span class=\"C-12\">The 12 Days of Christmas Treasure Hunt takes place at<\/span><span class=\"C-12\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"C-12\">The National Portrait Gallery. You&#8217;ll\u00a0<\/span>be exploring this top London art gallery, searching for items mentioned in the Christmas carol.<\/p>\n<p>There is no need to worry if you don\u2019t know all the words. We\u2019ll give you a list of the standard ones in your clue packs.<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0And after all that activity, its time to relax&#8230;.<\/h3>\n<p>Sit back and relax as you share cocktails at a secret location where presents and prizes will be distributed.<\/p>\n<p>No livestock will be involved.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/treasure-hunts-in-london.co.uk\/12daysofxmas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tickets<\/a> for Saturday 26 Nov 2017 are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/treasure-hunts-in-london.co.uk\/12daysofxmas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Treasure Hunts In London<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengerhunts.london\/christmas-for-groups.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Group tickets<\/a> for Friday 1 Dec 2017 and Thursday 14 Dec 2017 are available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scavengerhunts.london\/christmas-for-groups.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12720\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/dsc_2743.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_2743\" width=\"2592\" height=\"3872\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing what present to buy your loved one can be tough. But do you really want to give them a farm\u2019s worth of livestock and a party load of people? Pity the poor recipient in The Twelve Days of Christmas. This traditional English Christmas carol, first published in England in 1780, tells the story of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12699\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wondering what to give your true love this Christmas?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,521,671,608],"tags":[993,1280,130,71,12,700,231,439],"class_list":["post-12699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-calendar-events-misc","category-social-team-building","category-treasure-hunts","tag-12-days-of-christmas","tag-12-days-of-christmas-treasure-hunt","tag-christmas","tag-cocktails","tag-london","tag-national-portrait-gallery","tag-treasure-hunt","tag-treasure-hunts-in-london"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wondering what to give your true love this Christmas? - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12699\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wondering what to give your true love this Christmas? - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Knowing what present to buy your loved one can be tough. 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