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Category Archives: Seasonal musings
The great winter escape 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪
They say timing is everything. Whoever ‘they’ are clearly weren’t talking about my recent departure from Germany – which happened to be exactly three days before Mother Nature decided to dump enough snow on Hannover to make front-page news. Coincidence? … Continue reading
Posted in Seasonal musings, Travel
Tagged * Germany, Carcassonne, Christmas, cold weather, Cozy reading, France vs Germany, Hannover, Missing out, Pyrenees, Snow, Winter, Winter 2025
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An early case of Christmas fever 🇬🇧
Christmas seems to have ambushed me early this year—blame the sudden cold, the town’s over-enthusiastic lights visible from space, or the shops that think I came in for Santa mugs instead of water glasses. With the First Advent still days … Continue reading
Posted in Daily life, Seasonal musings
Tagged * Christmas, 70s music, Advent, Blog Life, Christmas Lights, Christmas Markets, cold weather, Early Christmas Feeling, Everyday Adventures, Festive Atmosphere, Heart 70, Humour, Seasonal Mood, Shopping, Town Decorations, Water Glasses (yes, why not), Winter
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77 days till Christmas 🇬🇧
London, Hannover, and Ryanair luggage limits: my festive shopping strategy (or lack thereof)
Posted in Seasonal musings
Tagged * Christmas 2025, Comic books, Hannover, Hergé, Holiday shopping, London trip, Tintin
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