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Christmas markets
The Christmas markets are spectacular and comprise wooden huts, decorated with bright lights and other bits and pieces, from which is sold everything from trinkets, decorations and toys to food – honey-glazed nuts, roast chestnuts, liquorices and aniseed and other sweets, bratwurst, and, of course, heavily spiced mulled wines (Gluywein it is called and could be a cross between glue and wine). The markets, it seems, are to be places to socialize in rather than buy too many presents and gifts as they just throng with people milling about, eating and drinking, as much as buying things.
The Christmas markets in Nuremberg are spectacular and one day we will consult our German friend about the meaning of many of the trinkets. Nutcracker characters and things with horizontal propeller blades on them!
The slideshow will give some idea of what they look like.