Christmas Adventures: Valkenburg Part 1

Today we explored Valkenburg which I was very excited about as they had Christmas Markets in caves! You had to buy tickets for the markets (to limit the number of people at one time) so we decided to go to the most popular one, the market in the Municipal caves, first. We got tickets for right when they opened.

Heading inside!

And...this was incredibly disappointing! There were a lot of lights, which are most of the photos and were nice, but the booths were mostly cheap junk like carnival prizes or something. And not much Christmasy stuff. It was not what we were expecting. It was also 8,000 degrees inside and I was dying. We had our masks on, it was cold outside so all the layers, it was not great.

It is also not a cave! It is a mine, which is a different thing so that was a further disappointment

The first parts were super crowded, but luckily as we went it got less and less (we were not spending a lot of time as there wasn't anything that interesting to look at)

Once we got back outside we went back to the car to grab our lunch

And had a break to eat lunch in Den Halderpark. The sun even came out which was so nice!

We had tickets for another smaller cave for after lunch, but after the disappointment of the morning Raymond was like we don't have to go to that one. I thought yeah, but we did buy the tickets so might as well spy. If it is as disappointing as the first we just won't spend a lot of time there. But that is for the next post!

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