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Tag: Parc Asterix (2025)

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Gallic Christmas at Parc Asterix

December 25, 2025

Welcome to the least festive of festive blogs ever posted on Christmas Eve! This is the tale of my trip last weekend to Parc Asterix for their Noël Gaulois, Gallic Christmas, event. If you’re not familiar with Parc Asterix, it’s a theme park north of Paris dedicated to beloved long-running French comic album character Asterix … More Gallic Christmas at Parc Asterix

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By the time you see this, I should have the first two Astérix books in my hands and I’ll actually know something about everything I saw and did last weekend. But I enjoyed bimbling around a place so full of bright colours and finding rides that didn’t frighten quite all the life out of me, and that was in itself pretty unexpected when I was questioning my life choices on the way to the airport. #parcasterix #themepark #asterix Pégase Express was by far the scariest rollercoaster I’ve ever been on, even more so than La Trace du Hourra (which is classed as “strong sensations” but I did it in the dark with no glasses on) but I really enjoyed the theming. It’s a pegasus-powered train to three classical cities so the queue is through a station, complete with Ancient Greek departure boards, ticket machines, metro maps and vending machines, complete with Ares bars. The ride might have frightened the life out of me but the station was my favourite thing in the whole park! #parcasterix #themepark #rollercoaster Merry Christmas from Noël Gaulois at Parc Asterix last weekend! If you’re bored today, or you’re all out of Christmas spirit and just want some peace and quiet, my blog post about Gallic Christmas just went live this afternoon - come and join me as I struggle with maps, rain and scary rides (which aren’t actually scary if you’re a rollercoaster fan - I’m not!). #parcasterix #themepark #christmas I have Opinions on cathedrals and I’m (mostly) not a fan of Birmingham’s. Give me Gothic! Give me Norman! Give me an underfunded and incomplete conversion from Norman to Gothic! Give me soaring majesty! Don’t give me… whatever this is! Obviously, the Catherine-and-Julie selfies get a post all of their own! It’s a habit we’re trying to get into but we don’t think of it as much as we should, so there are only three from the whole day (there’s also one with Ozzy the mechanical bull in the station the night before but we’re both bedazzled and sweaty and I deliberately rubbed all my mascara off on the train, assuming photos were done for the night so that one’s staying in the camera roll). Come for the Rock Choir Live, stay for the German-style Christmas market! While it sprawled all the way up New Street and Victoria Square with a second market on Cathedral Square, it wasn’t quite as extensive as I expected and food definitely dominated - good for me; I had pretzels and enormous cheese-filled crepes and a very tolerable (read: pretty good!) hot chocolate in a mug that had taken two days to decide were Birmingham-specific rather than so Frankfurt-inspired that they were literally just bought in from Frankfurt. No, these are definitely local mugs. I didn’t have the library on my to-do list for Birmingham but it turns out it has a great terrace for views over the square below, the research/academic library is pretty spectacular and while the normal-person fiction library downstairs is nothing very interesting to look at, it has comfortable seats in the dry and the warm and has wifi. #birmingham #libraries While my purpose in Birmingham was Rock Choir Live and my second purpose was the famous Frankfurt Christmas Market, I also had plenty of time to get to know Birmingham a bit. A particular highlight was the work of local boy Edward Burnes-Jones and William Morris in the spectacular windows of the cathedral, the Birmingham Bifröst which helped me find my way home in the evenings and a glimpse of one of the “more than Venice” canals that you don’t see in the area between New Street Station and the cathedral. #birmingham In yet another “you should be doing more with your weekend”, I spent the weekend in Birmingham two weeks ago. The main purpose was to see Rock Choir Live’s big Christmas party (featuring special guests Emili Sandé, Sam Ryder & Russell Watson, plus the legend Pat Sharp’s DJ set to get things started).

About Julie

I’m a blogger, adventurer, lover of hot water, amateur paddler and polar bear who wilts in hot weather.

Time (by day, I’m a researcher) and funds keep me within Europe and I make regular trips up to the north, especially to Iceland. I like the occasional adventure across Europe by train and I’m starting to make use of my weekends for 48-hour adventures.

This isn’t my only creative outlet – I’ve written two travelogues with a third and fourth being (not to much) written simultaneously right now.

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