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The Strasbourg Christmas market

19 December 2015
Marché de Noël de Strasbourg

I step onto the platform after a four hour train ride, march through the station out into the street and admire the utter quaintness of the scene in front of me. Rows of little wooden rooves, crowds of shoppers flowing as swiftly as the water in the river below the bridge and a tingling in my toes explained in equal parts by excitement and the fact that I stayed seated for too long on the train.

This is it! The Strasbourg Christmas market.

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