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We had a day trip to Cologne. We visited several Christmas Markets, with the bonus of visiting the Chocolate Museum!
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Throughout Germany starting in mid-November Christmas markets appear. Predominantly, they are located in city squares, however in the country side they’ll put on massive markets at a farm or even a field. Majority of the stalls are focused on food and beverages, however, some of the best stalls to visits are the crafts for sale. Here’s the first few we visited on our trip.
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Travel had not yet returned because restrictions were still in place. In response to that Air Canada, or Aeroplan, offered up ways to achieve frequent flyer status for 2023. After some calculations, I realized I could achieve my goal by adding a round trip to Vancouver. However, without vacation available, it was going to be a day trip!
In 2021 airfare, even Canadian domestic fares, were very low. It became so low that I couldn’t pass up the chance to visit Vancouver. We chose to go in the fall to avoid large crowds and hope that the we would have excellent weather. After all, we were only going for a long weekend.
Starting our day at the airport made it easy to make our morning flight back to Toronto. The best part was being flown in an Airbus 220, bliss for economy class passengers!