Trip to Düsseldorf part II - more pictures & buys

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This is my second post about my short trip to Düsseldorf. If you are curious which book I bought and what other awesome affordable stuff I got - read on :) 

Some shop windows really stood out because they were decorated in such imaginative ways. Shops have really put a lot of thought and effort into decorating their shop windows well for Christmas so I just had to take some pictures!

 Look at this huge Chanel 5 perfume bottle! Seriously, it was bigger than my head. And my head is quite big :D 

Gorgeous display of Chanel 5

A Giant Shalimar perfume bottle. I love vintage perfume packaging - it's really elegant. 

Curious what I bought?

I've never read a book in German before, so this is going to be challenging at first but will hopefully improve my German language skills. I got Poe's The Mystery Of Marie-Roget (3€). I really like Poe's detective fiction, so I'll definitely have to force myself and read the book despite the language difficulties I may have.

1. Schaebens Schoko Maske - Chocolate mask - 0.55€ (about £0,43)

Okay, I admit I bought this face mask just because it smells and tastes like chocolate :D I used it last night and it's really good. Also, I had to lick my fingers - the mask was too delicious..

Trip to Düsseldorf part I ~

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I'm finally going to post some pictures of my awesome trip to Düsseldorf and write a short post about it! One of my best friends is currently studying there so I went to visit her. I was there for only a weekend but we had so much fun! The city had already been decorated for Christmas - everything was so sparkly and beautiful. Straight out of a fairytale. We saw the Christmas markets and I must admit I had wayyyy too many sweets in these three days. I regret nothing! (except for not having more Glühwein and even more sweets)

Warning: Long post and horrible quality pictures under the cut (you can enlarge them if you want)

On Saturday we went to the Old town. How cute are these house-shaped shops! Different things are sold in each shop - mostly food, handmade goods or souvenirs. 

Stratford-upon-Avon

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I'm writing this post to tell you about my trip to Stratford-upon-Avon. My best friend from high school and I have decided to meet in a different place every three months because we both like traveling. We meet in places that are situated between her town and mine.  Since we'd met in Bath and Oxford already, this time we decided to meet in Stratford-upon-Avon, which is Shakespeare's birth place.  I've been there before but that was many years ago. We had only 5-6 hours to spend there but we had a lovely time.  

First we walked down the main street to have a look at the local shops. Fortunately it was sunny outside and everything was open. There were so many souvenir shops which sell the same stuff - the usual Big Ben and London Eye rings and tea. But if you look carefully you see some unusual places like this little shop. 

This Alice in Wonderland-themed shop made me really happy. We were surrounded by so many temptations -  cups, cards, postcards, little notebooks, magnets etc. I'm not going to lie - I didn't resist and bought a lovely Alice notebook as a souvenir for me to remember this trip.