And here we are, on Christmas Eve, on the Christmassy post from my trip to the German Christmas Market! I’ve covered two swimming trips, one indoor and one outdoor, a Christmas light trail and a trip to Cologne Cathedral but at last we come to Frankfurt Christmas Market! There are four or five separate sections.… More What to do in Frankfurt: Christmas Market
This is the fourth post of the Frankfurt series and I think this is the first time I’m taking you into actual city centre Frankfurt! It’s winter, it’s cold, I’ve done the market a couple of times and I’m tired. So where do I? I go for a swim! I like swimming. I like wallowing in… More What to do in Frankfurt: Titus Thermen
One thing I knew I wanted to do while I was in Germany was take the train up the road to Cologne and visit the cathedral. It’s only a little over an hour from Frankfurt and I’d heard rumours it’s a pretty good cathedral. I did balk at the price. I went to the ticket… More A Day Out of Frankfurt: Cologne Cathedral
I started this little series of Germany blogs yesterday with “what to do in Frankfurt” and not actually talking about Frankfurt. But today we are going to Frankfurt. Kind of. In fact we’re going to a park on the outskirts, next to the stadium and sponsored by Deutsch Banke. This is Christmas Garden. It’s a… More What to do in Frankfurt: Christmas Garden Light Trail
Today I start the semi-live Blogmas blogs! That is, today is Tuesday and I was still in Frankfurt yesterday! It’s my first solo trip to Germany – I know! – and while I feel a bit like I’ve spent a lot of it not doing much, I’ve managed to come home with plans for five… More What to do in Frankfurt: a day in Wiesbaden
Yesterday I talked vaguely about having a lazy weekend. Hot tub, children’s books, biscuits, that sort of thing. Well, today let’s do the “what did I do?” post. Friday doesn’t count. I arrived Friday and stargazed from the hot tub. Very nice. On Saturday, after an early-morning snow flurry, I went to Yeovil in the… More Glamping in the snow
And we come to the semi-live part of Blogmas! At the time of publishing, I’m in Germany and I only had a handful of hours last Monday afternoon to get this post finished between returning from my glamping trip and heading off at 5am for the flight to Germany! Anyway, welcome to the Forager shepherd’s… More A winter wellness break in a tin hut
The original plan was to have one Travel Library a week in Blogmas and then I spoiled that by deciding – quite foolishly – to have the entire last week be my trip to Germany (oh, please tell me I can write five new posts in that tiny space of time!). So three Travel Libraries,… More Travel Library: Nightwalking by John Lewis-Stempel
A week or so ago, I talked about going to the Christmas events in Bournemouth: the Christmas Tree Wonderland and the market but also mentioned that I went ice skating. Well, this is that post. A little background. First, inline skating was the thing to do when I was junior school age. Bikes took over… More I can’t ice skate! (or can I?)
Last Travel Library of Blogmas (I think)! Today I have Wintering, by Katherine May (*affiliate link to bookshop.org). It’s the December book club book in the Adventure Queens Facebook group. I’d not heard of it but “Adventure Queens” + “wild swimming” + “trip to Scandinavia” + the winter theme convinced me that this was the… More Travel Library: Wintering by Katherine May