December #Trips100 Round Up

Winter is here, Christmas is creeping towards us and you’ve all been posting some deliciously wintry and festive pics on Instagram in recent days. Thanks to everyone who is regularly using the #Trips100 hashtag. We love to see your images and share your journeying this way. Here’s a round up of posts we felt really captured the season’s travels….

The Eiffel tower does a fabulous impression of a Christmas tree. We always forget it lights up and night and get a fresh surprise every time we’re in Paris. So to kick off this winter round up here’s some dynamic sparkle from Karen @mini_travellers.

Paris was doing its thang last night and the Eiffel Tower was literally shimmering! @parisenscene @leparisenscene #efluent5 #paris #france #mondayescapes

A video posted by Karen Beddow (@mini_travellers) on Nov 28, 2016 at 11:29pm PST

@Bristolbloggers, a community of Instragamers and bloggers in the West Country have also been checking out some winter lights in the dark. Perhaps surprisingly there’s an Alpine theme to these city centre goings on. @apresbristol is a new pop up ski bar in Millennium Square…

The Alps come to Bristol – Fun evening at @apresbristol – a new pop up bar in Millennium Square with an Apres ski theme – loved the pizza from @thepizzabike too

A photo posted by Bristol Bloggers & Influencers (@bristolbloggers) on Nov 30, 2016 at 12:03pm PST

Staying in the South West @heathercowper has been checking out polar bears on Bristol’s @wherethewall street art tour. You get the feeling those bears would hop on a motor bike give the slightest encouragement.

Dancing polar bears with vintage motorbike by @winged_fox on our @wherethewall #streetart tour – you won’t see them on the street as they are in the cycle park under Hamilton House – dancing joyfully among the bicycles – on our @bristolbloggers walk #bbwtw

A photo posted by Heather Cowper (@heathercowper) on Aug 31, 2016 at 1:47pm PDT

Over in Portugal winter is evident in the bare trees but the atmosphere was nothing but warm when Clare from @suitcasesandsandcastles visited Lisbon and stumbled across drummers in Placa Luis de Camoes in Chiado. Here’s her cool capture of the musicians.

How to celebrate the end of the week in Lisbon. It is rather special when you’re wandering around a new city and you find yourself drawn towards the sound of music playing in one of the squares. These drummers on the Praca Luis de Camoes in Chiado were fantastic. @visit_lisboa @visitlisbon @visitportugal #lisbon #portugal #lovelisbon #drummers #ttot #ftb100 #travel #familytravel #familytravelblog #britmums #trips100 #farawayfiles #traveltheworld #guardiantravelsnaps #worldtravel

A photo posted by Clare Thomson (@suitcasesandsandcastles) on Dec 2, 2016 at 6:24am PST

Bare trees are also evident in this capture by Haley @borderlass33 But this winter scene in Routh is warmed by the colours of a rainbow and Haley is sure there was a pot of Christmas gold to be found at the end. Did the elves get there first?

The pot of gold 🌈 is just behind the hedge. Who got there before me..?!

A photo posted by BorderLass (@borderlass33) on Nov 10, 2016 at 7:15pm PST

It’s all shades of white and silver for Gary who blogs and Instagrams as @tipsfortravellers with this delightful shot of Mraconia Church in Small Kazan on the Romania/Serbia border.

Mraconia Church in Small Kazan on Romania/ Serbia border. Gorgeous little church that used to be a look out and was high on a hill before the lake was built (Iron Gate) in 1972! I cruised past in on Emerald Waterways Emerald Dawn river cruise boat on their East Europe Danube trip #landscape #romania #serbia #church #travel

A photo posted by Tips For Travellers (@tipsfortravellers) on Nov 28, 2016 at 9:11am PST

Meanwhile @NellHeshram from the Pigeon Pair and Me made a decision to step away from the Christmas glitz and took us back to her visit to Gouda cheese market in Holland earlier in the year. But there was no escaping the gold. Nell are you sure those cheeses don’t fancy themselves as baubles?

Cheese! I’ve stepped away from the Christmas frenzy and posted a throwback tale on my blog, about our morning at Gouda cheese market, a three hundred-year old tradition in the Dutch town. Farmers bring in their wheels of cheese and then barter in a ritual of hand-clapping, or handjeklap. It really is a sight to behold. #Gouda #goudacheese #cheese #cheesemarket #holland #netherlands #dutchcheese #goudacheesemarket @visit_holland #travel #familytravel #trips100

A photo posted by Nell@PigeonPairandMe (@nellheshram) on Nov 30, 2016 at 3:45am PST

I’d like to finish on a warm note. Trish @mumsgoneto recently took herself off to Seville to warm up and here’s a reminder of what life was like for us all before Jack Frost arrived.

What are your travel inspirations this week?Trish at @mumsgoneto is featuring Seville on this week’s #FarawayFiles. Where will you take us? The link up is open on @oregongirl_aroundtheworld blog from now until midnight on Friday. @untoldmorsels @suitcasesandsandcastles #travel #travelinspiration #globetrotting #wanderlust #trips100 #traveladdict

A photo posted by Faraway Files (@farawayfiles) on Dec 1, 2016 at 4:10am PST

We still have a couple of weeks till Christmas so do keep posting your festive shots and we will keep watching out for them on the tag. And if any of you are going skiing we’d love to feature your antics in a #Trips100 round up early next year. Do let us know.