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Sunsets are always a good idea. Even when it mea Sunsets are always a good idea. 

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Living the Instagram life in Le Havre 📸🇨🇵 Living the Instagram life in Le Havre 📸🇨🇵 

The best photo spots in Le Havre? You ask, I deliver:

1. Le Volcan
2. Bassin du Commerce
3. Catène De Containers
4. UP#3 (pictured here)
5. Estacade de Sainte-Adresse

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Dancing into the weekend 💃 But not really... be Dancing into the weekend 💃 But not really... because my alarm clock is set for 2 AM as I have a plane to catch 🤓✈️ Leaving you with a few more memories from my trip to France last summer, while I'll be out exploring Portugal for the next 10 days. 
 
Happy weekend!

📍 Le Volcan, Le Havre, France 🇫🇷

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From a gloomy summer day in Le Havre ☁️☔ We From a gloomy summer day in Le Havre ☁️☔ We were too early for breakfast, so I had the perfect excuse for a lengthy photography session at Le Volcan. Not sure how my friend felt about it, but you win some (pretty pics) and you lose some (time) if you travel with me 🤭

📍 Le Volcan, Le Havre, France 🇫🇷

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Throwback to a very spontaneous and verrry last-minute road trip to Normandy with @kristienjom last summer. We wanted a location where we could easily spend 4 days without having to travel too far or to the usual suspects (Germany, anyone?). @lehavre_etretat_tourisme had been on my to-visit list for a long time (thanks to a blog post by @dichtbijenverweg) and I convinced my friend to tag along with the promise of French wine bars and beautiful white cliffs. More on those white cliffs later. Today it's just me, my red hair and a white concrete vulcano (aka the cultural center of Le Havre). 

📍 Le Volcan, Le Havre, France 🇫🇷

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Europe, Germany, Travel · 19 December 2019

Aachen Christmas Market

How’s that for the world’s least inspiring blog post title? Pretty great, I’d say.

Truth be told, I was nowhere near a German Christmas Market this year. Helsinki? Yes. Tallinn? Also yes. But Germany? No. Don’t be fooled by the ‘2019’ on the gluhwein cups. It really was 2018.

These photos are from last year when we spend the whole two and a half hours in Aachen before fleeing the scene because it was just too crowded to be enjoyable. I didn’t feel like I had enough ‘content’ to write a blog post about it back then, but I’m a year older and wiser now and have decided that this day out does deserve a spot on my blog. So here it goes!

The day pretty much revolved food. Food and crowds. Most of the food was eaten while balancing between the streams of day tourists, avoiding accidental elbow punches and small children running loose. I think I might have also punched a few people with my heavy Nikon d750 and the huge lens I had on it.

I’ve written about our favorite Christmas Market foods before, but in this post you’ll see the best ones make a comeback. Bratwurst mit sauerkraut und senf? Yes please! Although my personal favorite will always be Reibekuchen. Hearty, simple, tasty. Especially with a good ole cup of gluhwein!

Oh, before I forget. The Aachner Printen (a type of gingerbread) are a must-try. The Aacheners love it so much, they have giants printen mascots all around the Christmas market! The tallest one is 6 meters high. Can you spot the mascots in my photos?

After all that eating, we tried to tour the historic city center of Aachen. I say “tried”, because it proved impossible to move around let alone photograph the city during the festive season. I have been to many German Christmas markets before, but never had I ever seen one so busy as Aachen. Here’s a few of the photos that I managed to take and actually kind of like. They’re not perfect. They’re okay.

Oh, and there’s more food. Nothing better than buttery mushrooms, amirite?

After two and a half hours we were just about done with it. We couldn’t reach the stalls and the lines to get more food had grown even longer than before. It was time to go home. Not before I had a good ole hot chocolate with whipped cream though! I liked the cup that it came is so much, that I took it home as a souvenir (even though it states the wrong year, haha). When you order your drinks you pay a small fee for the cup. If you bring it back unharmed you get your money back, but if you decide to keep it that is fine too. I have acquired quite a collection over the years and I bring them out every year when we have people over during the Holidays. People love it and that way I actually get top use them too, haha.

Practical information

Aachen Christmas Market takes place every year and starts about four weeks before Christmas. Most stalls can be found on the squares surrounding the Aachner Dom (cathedral) and rathaus (town hall). To get there, I suggest you use one of the park+ride parkings the city pops-up during festivities.

In: Europe, Germany, Travel

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  1. Mica says

    19 December 2019 at 12:35

    It looks like such a fun market, even if it did get too crowded to be enjoyable in the end! it’s funny the mug had the wrong year on it too!

    Hope that you’re having a good week 🙂 We went to the Christmas event at a theme park last night, so much fun! 🙂

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31 circles around the sun today 🪩 I am probab 31 circles around the sun today 🪩 

I am probably supposed to make this a sentimental post about how messy 29 was and how I had to come back to myself at 30 and figure out how to do life alone. But I'm currently rushing to get to work and I have zero inspiration as to what to say. I just wish that 31 will be (at least a little) less rocky than the past two years, so that I may finally have a chance to feel the world around me. Goodness knows I need it. Also, buying a dryer would be nice. 

Virtual 🥂 and 🍰 for all of you! 

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Sunsets are always a good idea. Even when it mea Sunsets are always a good idea. 

Even when it means you have to climb back down a small slippery path full of rolling debris in the dark 🙃

#etretat #lehavreetretattourisme #belgiantravelblogger
Still looking for those "plenty of good fish" in t Still looking for those "plenty of good fish" in the sea 👀🎣

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Living the Instagram life in Le Havre 📸🇨🇵 Living the Instagram life in Le Havre 📸🇨🇵 

The best photo spots in Le Havre? You ask, I deliver:

1. Le Volcan
2. Bassin du Commerce
3. Catène De Containers
4. UP#3 (pictured here)
5. Estacade de Sainte-Adresse

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Coastal city details ⛱️🌊🐚⛵ #lehavre # Coastal city details ⛱️🌊🐚⛵

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Dancing into the weekend 💃 But not really... be Dancing into the weekend 💃 But not really... because my alarm clock is set for 2 AM as I have a plane to catch 🤓✈️ Leaving you with a few more memories from my trip to France last summer, while I'll be out exploring Portugal for the next 10 days. 
 
Happy weekend!

📍 Le Volcan, Le Havre, France 🇫🇷

#lehavre #lehavreetretattourisme #lh_lehavre #lehavreenimages #lehavrelife #lehavreenimages #lehavrevilleport #lehavrephoto #lehavrequejaime #etretattourisme #lehavretourisme #IgersLeHavre #Insta_Normandy #seine_maritime_normandie #shareseinemaritime #NormandieRegionMonde ##normandiemylove #normandietourisme #belgiantravelblogger #dametraveler #ladiesgoneglobal #sheisnotlost #wearetravelgirls #femaletravelcommunity #travelgirlsgetaways #womenwhoexplore #thediscoverer #girldiscoverers #travelinladies #girlsthatwander #damestravel
From a gloomy summer day in Le Havre ☁️☔ We From a gloomy summer day in Le Havre ☁️☔ We were too early for breakfast, so I had the perfect excuse for a lengthy photography session at Le Volcan. Not sure how my friend felt about it, but you win some (pretty pics) and you lose some (time) if you travel with me 🤭

📍 Le Volcan, Le Havre, France 🇫🇷

#lehavre #lehavreetretattourisme #lh_lehavre #lehavreenimages #lehavrelife #lehavreenimages #lehavrevilleport #lehavrephoto #lehavrequejaime #etretattourisme #lehavretourisme #IgersLeHavre #Insta_Normandy #seine_maritime_normandie #shareseinemaritime #NormandieRegionMonde ##normandiemylove #normandietourisme #belgiantravelblogger #dametraveler #ladiesgoneglobal #sheisnotlost #wearetravelgirls #femaletravelcommunity #travelgirlsgetaways #womenwhoexplore #thediscoverer #girldiscoverers #travelinladies #girlsthatwander #damestravel
Long time no ginger hair in this feed 💁‍♀️✨

Throwback to a very spontaneous and verrry last-minute road trip to Normandy with @kristienjom last summer. We wanted a location where we could easily spend 4 days without having to travel too far or to the usual suspects (Germany, anyone?). @lehavre_etretat_tourisme had been on my to-visit list for a long time (thanks to a blog post by @dichtbijenverweg) and I convinced my friend to tag along with the promise of French wine bars and beautiful white cliffs. More on those white cliffs later. Today it's just me, my red hair and a white concrete vulcano (aka the cultural center of Le Havre). 

📍 Le Volcan, Le Havre, France 🇫🇷

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