What I've been up to this week #15

We spent Sunday getting the house all ready for Christmas (it’s never too early!)

Bought some graphic novels (I've already finished one of them in parallel to the book I'm currently reading)

Saw many pretty sunsets

Saw the Christmas market being installed in Dunkirk (it opened yesterday)

Mum made boeuf bourgignon which was very very nice

Re discovered the joy of reading at the library in Dunkirk. I used to go there all the time when I was in high school because it's less than 5 minutes away. I hadn't been there in years but I spent the entire afternoon there twice in 2 days and did a lot of progress on my books. There used to be a café in the library but it shut I think because of covid (I imagine) but they've opened up again and I had a lovely coffee, many hot chocolates and even a salted caramel pancake. Also the prices are really good, I paid 3,20€ for a coffee with oat milk, 4€ for a pancake and 3,50€ for a hot chocolate with oat milk which I think is reasonable.

Renewed my library card which meant I got to borrow many books. I found loads of queer graphic novels to borrow. I also read "not a new york love strory" which sounded good but it was a bit boring even though the theme of the book was good.

On Saturday we had a bit of a chaotic day but we ended the day by going to the Christmas market. 

Our favourite stall was there again so we bought lots of mini dried sausages. My favourite is parmesan covered dried sausage! We ate a few and went back to exploring the market to see what else we could taste lol!!

In Lille, the speciality of the Christmas market is pretzels so I was hoping we'd find something similar in Dunkirk. We didn't find the same ones as in Lille but we found something equally as nice, tartiflette (reblochon) cheese and dried onions! Mum and I both had one and they were lovely!

We then went back to exploring the market and came accross a giant Labubu lol!!!!!

We left the Christmas market because we were hoping to get a Too Good To Go bag like we usually do on Satudays but none of them were available so we had a wander around town

Next week will also be very chaotic, but hopefully we find little moments of joy amidst the chaos! :/

What I've been up to this week #14

A lot has happened this week I feel like there wasn't a day where I wasn't doing anything. I spent most the week getting all the last bits ready to move out of my flat in Lille. I've been told I basically have two weeks to leave the flat which is a bit scary as I've been living there for just over 3 years but its time for some change. Here's what I got up to this week when I wasn't tidying the flat!

Did a lot of scrapbooking this week.

Took this picture and realised how much my hair has grown since I last dyed it and has my fringe. I'm in the process of letting my hair grow so I can get my natural colour back.

Had a few medical appointments this week followed by sweat treats from the bakery next to the health center.

Then one fo the most exciting parts of the week, my brother came to Lille because we got tickets to go to the Brazil - Tunisia football match. We had really good seats and the bonus is we only paid 20€ per ticket so that's even better!! Before going to the football match we did a bit of shopping and after the match we got wraps from the kebab shop because they'd ran out of kebab meat... lol! On our way back from the match my brother said don't bother looking at the map I know where we're going (he'd only been to the stadium once before) so I didn't question it and followed him.. well, we ended up walking the wrong way for 20mn so then we were 30mn away from the metro, the walk back was a bit dodgy but we made it. The advantage is by the time we got to the metro station, it was empty so we only had to wait less than 5mn to get on the metro.

Had these sweets that I got from the asian supermarket, they were very nice. I've tried a few flavours of these and all of them are really nice!

Decided I was going to start posting youtube videos so here's the name of my channel if you want to follow my adventures!

Had poke bowl and gyozas on Wednesday

Went for coffee at my favourite coffee shop again!

Then the most exciting part of the week!! The christmas market opened on Wednesday so me and my sister went there. We didn't have food there but I bought two rings and some stickers. On Friday, I went back to the christmas market and had croziflette (my favourite meal ever) and a white kinder bueno pretzel which was delicious! I'm looking forward to going there with my mum and my brother so they can try all the foods I tried!!

on Thursday, it snowed !!!! which was very exciting until I realised there was a hole in my shoes which meant I had soaking wet feet and was a group therapy for another 4 hours so I had to stay with cold and wet feet for 4 hours!!!!! Not so fun!

Speaking of group therapy! We made potatoe and courgette bake followed by cookies, yum!

Mum told me to go buy new socks so I went to the supermarket at the end of my street and I found every single flavour of ciao kombucha !!! So naturally I had to buy them to try them all (I'd only tried the berry one so far). The peach and dragon fruit ones are my favourite!! I'll have to go back and see if they have more next time I'm there!!

Did a lot of reading (I'm loving this book so far!)

There's a new lesbian film that came out last week and I obviously wanted to see it. It was really good!!!! I wanted to read the book before seeing it but was too impatient and excited to see the film so I'll read the book after!!!

On Saturday my sister's boyfriend drove me and my sister back to Dunkirk with all the leftover stuff from my flat which means my flat is now completely empty. We ended up going to the thai restaurant in town. I obviously had to have a pad thai (my favourite) and it was delicious!

Then another exciting thing!! We picked up our new glasses!!!!! I hadn't changed my glasses in at least 6 years and I could feel my vision getting worse and worse and I couldn't see anything anymore so this was well overdue!!

Let's see what next week brings on!!