{"id":13627,"date":"2015-12-15T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2015-12-15T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-15T08:30:18","slug":"more-short-christmas-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"More Short Christmas Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">Christmas in Bruges<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Paula decides to spend Christmas alone in the gorgeous city of Bruges.<\/p>\n<p>However, her old college boyfriend, and very first love, James is also spending time in the city. A surprise encounter leads to\u00a0a walk through the snowy streets, and talk of the paths their\u00a0lives have taken over the past nine years.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that love is in the air\u00a0as Christmas Day approaches, until\u00a0James&#8217;s painful war memories of his time as a medic in Afghanistan, threaten their rekindled love.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B00NVMES70\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B00NVMES70&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51ykMP1WeRL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas in Bruges\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas in Bruges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-extra-large\">A Christmas Tail<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>Thomas\u00a0McLaren has been given only months to live, so his mother\u00a0decides to take him to St Andrews to\u00a0find Hamish McHamish. Hamish is\u00a0the town\u2019s famous cat\u00a0who Thomas believes can cure him, if only he can stroke him.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately,\u00a0Hamish has gone\u00a0missing and it is up to DCI Andy Gilchrist\u00a0to track down the missing moggy.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0119PD3E4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B0119PD3E4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-eu.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51Wzt74FzAL._SL250_.jpg\" alt=\"A Christmas Tail by T F Muir\" width=\"165\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Christmas Tail by T F Muir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>City Adventurers<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/bqNinD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up <\/a>for my newsletter with information\u00a0on fun things to do for\u00a0City Adventurers and special offers on events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas in Bruges Paula decides to spend Christmas alone in the gorgeous city of Bruges. However, her old college boyfriend, and very first love, James is also spending time in the city. A surprise encounter leads to\u00a0a walk through the snowy streets, and talk of the paths their\u00a0lives have taken over the past nine years. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13627\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Short Christmas Reads<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521,662],"tags":[1004,130,982,716,1005],"class_list":["post-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","category-literature","tag-a-christmas-tail","tag-christmas","tag-christmas-books","tag-christmas-in-bruges","tag-short-story"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>More Short Christmas Reads - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13627\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More Short Christmas Reads - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christmas in Bruges Paula decides to spend Christmas alone in the gorgeous city of Bruges. 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