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We’re total Christmas enthusiasts and absolutely love exploring Christmas markets across Europe. Our first Christmas market road trip was back in 2019, and ever since, it’s become a regular tradition. Each year we try revisit our favourites while discovering a few new ones along the way — because let’s be honest, there’s always room for…
In 27 days we visited 24 Christmas markets throughout France, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium. You would think that after so many markets we would have started to get tired of them, but in fact each market was different and had it’s own special feature or feel to it. We obviously have a few that we…
For Christmas 2021 we booked reservations to The Great Christmas Feast in London – a Charles Dickens dinner. I am a huge fan of Charles Dickens and A Christmas Carol, so even though I didn’t know what to expect I was very excited and looking forward to it. Unfortunately, the night of our scheduled dinner…
We only had one full day free for Kyoto, so we decided to visit the Sourthern Higashiyama and Gion areas. We arrived from Osaka in the morning and left our luggage at the train station. We found a few lockers however the larger ones were all full. After wondering the train station looking for a…
This is a great gyoza (dumplings) restaurant in Harajuku. We found out about this restaurant from a recommendation in the Pocket Tokyo book from Lonely Planet. The outside of the restaurant didn’t have any English so we weren’t sure we were at the right place, but the guide did say that there was usually a…