Hi lovelies,
Last #TravelFriday I couldn't post a travel blogpost, but I'm back this week with the hottest places in Groningen.
Groningen is a city is the northern Netherlands. There are a lot of students living in Groningen and it's a really hip and young city with a lot of cool shops & cafés. Let me share my top 6 with you.
*All photos are my own
1. Little Lovely Living
This place is insanely cute. It's a store with interior accessories. Mostly for kids rooms, but i have to admit i love all the things they sell as an adult as well. But the best thing about this place is that they sell UNICORN FOOD! Like the cutest food and drinks ever! Everything looks amazing and it actually tastes good too!
My favourite's the strawberry milkshake, yaay!
2. Toshka
This place attracted me by the cute graphics on their windows outside. I love the branding of the place, just as much i love the interior. I felt really comfortable sitting here and having some wine and beer with my husband. We actually got some free cheese to go with the wine as well. The food and drinks in this place are great and you can really have a good time here if you want to take a rest after a day of shopping.
3. Pure
Pure sells frozen yoghurt, ice cream, donuts and drinks. The place looks modern and it seems to be very popular as well. Some people came here to try particular flavours of donuts, but they were sold out. You have to be early if you want to choose between all flavours.
My favourite was the caramel seasalt donut, yumm!
4. Wereldburgers
This burger restaurant is one of the best in the Netherlands! The burgers are made fresh and they taste amazing. There were so many burgers to choose from and they seemed all as tasty. I also loved the drinks they served at this restaurant. They didn't serve regural Coca-Cola's, but Fritz-Kola lemonades. I really liked them better than the well-known soda brands.
Also the wedges are reaaaaally good! They taste so ...real, unlike fries in most restaurants.
I really would like to come back here and try more from their menu.
5. Cat café Poeslief
This cat café is very cool. You can have a drink with a treat, like vegan brownies, and watch the cats play with their toys. The interior of the café is also very clean and cute.
6. Broodje van Eigen Deeg
This is a cute bakery in Groningen. It's really cool, since you can see the bakers work through the windows in the back of the store. There are so many kinds of fresh made bread you can find here. It's worth it to step inside the store to take a look around.
Where to stay?
We spent 1 weekend in Groningen and we got to see all these places! We stayed in the Apollo Hotel Groningen. The location of the hotel was very convenient for us, as we were travelling by car. The hotel was a 10-minute drive away from the city center. We parked our car in the city center parking lot, so we could bring stuff we bought to the car and wouldn't have to walk around with shopping bags all day.
The hotel is new and modern. We booked a room for 2, but got upgraded to an apartment, because it was our wedding anniversary.
The cocktails at the hotel are not really my taste, they serve like "real" cocktails, wich taste quite bitter. I'm all for the sweet cocktails with fruity flavours. The breakfast buffet was really good! So much food to choose from. From healthy smoothies and yoghurts to scrambled eggs with bacon to waffles and poffertjes* with powdered sugar.
*poffertjes are a Dutch kind of mini pancakes
