Christmas Market in Bremen

I went to the Christmas Market in Bremen - Germany - last weekend


We would be staying at the house of a friend so we first put our luggage there and then walked towards the city center. I spotted this statue along the way.


I explored it of course.


There were lots of cool buildings.




A church!


It was the Dom of Bremen.
We had to see it from up close of course.


I think this is a gryphon.


The inside of the Dom was beautiful.




Oh, we reached the Christmas Market.


There were lots of stands with Christmas ornaments and other cool Christmassy stuff.


And lots of Christmas decorations everywhere.


And look what I spotted!


The Bremen town musicians!
There's a really cool fairytale about these animals, although I think it would have been even cooler if there was a pig with them also.


Luckily I also found a really cool pig statue as we were exploring the market and the city.


We also found a windmill.


This is the main train station. There was a Christmas market there as well.


When it got darker the lights everywhere made things look really beautiful.


What a cool Christmas Market.



More pictures tomorrow!

I Meet One of My Favorite Authors

Last Sunday it was a special day:
Dana Cameron and her husband - Mr. G. - were visiting the Netherlands and came to Groningen to meet us!

Dana Cameron is one of my favorite authors, so you bet I was excited to meet her.
We went to the station to meet her Mr. G. and then went to the city center for some sightseeing.


We showed them the beautiful Martini Tower of course.
The bells were going crazy while we were looking at the tower and church. I think they were celebrating that I had such cool visitors.


We did some more sightseeing.
This is the Province House.


We took a walk around the canals.


After some sight seeing it was time for lunch.
We went to the Gold Office.


It was a warm, sunny day, so I got a bottle of cooled cider.


And a yummy toasted sandwich.
We talked about Groningen, America, books, and more. It was lots of fun.

After lunch we climbed the Martini tower to enjoy the view.
Then we walked back to the station, but had to take a big detour, because there was a run in the city center.


I got to pose with Dana at the statue of 't Peerd van Ome Loeks (Uncle Loek's Horse).


And also with both Dana and Mr. G.


Then we got something to drink at the cafe of the Groninger Museum, and we talked some more about all kinds of things.

Finally Dana and Mr. G. had to get back to Amsterdam, where they were staying in a hotel. It was really cool to meet them and show them Groningen.


We then went back to the city center and had dinner at Sumo, a restaurant with all kinds of yummy Oriental food.


Back home we sat down to rest our feet, and to look at the book we got as a gift from Dana, which she signed for us as well! (She also signed two books for us that we brought with us.)

It was an amazing day!

Thanks, Dana & Mr. G.

Bookish Goodies

There was a package for me yesterday!
I won a giveaway on Instagram by Danielle L. Jensen



I got two tins of tea, a candle, a pen, body butter and scrub, and an audio book! I received the audio book on my Audible account, but Danielle included a signed card of the book.

How awesome!


Stay tuned for more awesomeness tomorrow.

Lunch with Hammie

I met Hammie today for lunch!
I got to eat Fish and Chips from a newspaper! Yum!


We hung out in my owner's bag together with a piggy and hedgehog Hammie brought along as presents.
It was fun to catch up. We also did some shopping after lunch and I of course bought some books.


We should do this more often.
Thanks for the fun afternoon, Hammie and G.

What's the Piggy Been Doing?

I've finally done some things besides reading and gaming.


On August 28 I went to a book market and got two me-sized books.


Last Thursday we heard our favorite restaurant was closing at the end of August, so we decided to eat there one last time.


Yum Yum!


After our meal we said goodbye to the restaurant.


Bye, bye, cooks. Thanks for all those awesome meals.


I'll miss this place.


The main entrance.


Bye, lions and Buddha.


One last picture with one of the lions.


On Friday we were meeting my owner's aunt.
We went to the station to greet her as soon as she arrived.

We went into town for a lovely lunch, but my owner forgot to take a picture. After lunch we visited the Martini tower and we climbed it!


I think these ropes are to ring the bells.


The tower has bells that can play all kinds of songs. I'm not sure if these were those bells or just replicas. I think replicas, because bells should be bigger, right?


That's more like it!


We had a great view!


We even went higher, but they put wire at the windows, so you couldn't fall off.


We climbed all the steps down again and showed my owner's aunt the dragon outside of the tower.

We did some shopping and sightseeing and my owner and me got a book gift card from her aunt, so we bought two books of course. At the end of the afternoon my owner's aunt went back home. We had an awesome day!


At home a package from Jeffe was waiting for us, and it was full of books! There were also marzipan piggies for me. Thanks, Jeffe!


Today we got a present from my owner's best friend:


Zomlings!
They're zombielike creatures, and they are really cool! I immediately made a picture of them with one of my zombie books.


One of the Zomlings is a piggy!

Thanks, K!