Encouraged by the Worcester News article Light Night Worcester, we hooked up our horse and cart in Tenbury and excitingly made route to the bright city lights in Worcester.

Wow! Worcester did certainly woo us as we entered the Cathedral Square akin to Land of the Giants.

We bathed under the soft, gentle, gigantic luminosity office lights beaming their warm colossal colours down on us.

As we wandered down the high street past the regally and enchantingly lit Guildhall, we walked straight into a moving Mad Max type of loud, illuminated street theatre show with sky-reaching, inflatable puppets, dancers and singers, mindfully and menacingly moving amongst its tightlypacked audience that was splitting us all into almost becoming part of the show.

As our encounter desisted, we wandered into the shambles up an alley, whereupon a bright but soft-pink neon ladder rung up into the sky, almost inviting us to step up to the stars and start a story of our own.

Turning into the softly bulbed, bewitching Friar Street, we entered the Cornmarket and our senses were further teased with an audible and visual light tower that mesmerised my eyes chasing the darting particle of light around a framed light circus.

Just when I thought our senses were done, we then touched some blue, bulbous, big balloon sculptures that allowed us to feel colour, listen and attach ourselves to the sounds being omitted.

With so much more to mention like the St Swithun’s Church Butterfly Dream and the eclectic Street Food quarter, the organisers did a fantastic job that was well-marshalled and thoughtfully set out with hundreds of folk enjoying a fantastic spectacle of light – Well done Worcester!

It was brilliant; I’ll bring the grandchildren next time!

CLIFF SLADE

Tenbury Wells