Santa flying through the air on a sled, merry go rounds, bumper cars, and snow on the ground. Lara wanting to sample bratwurst and mulled wine. The trip through the Saarburcken market was a slow dawdle as Lara became side tracked by the wares and displays in the shops that lined the sides of the market. She was enticed to purchase at several shops and wanted to buy more but found that the rabbit ears on the mannequin were for window dressing only. I want those ears she complained.
We have just got home after visiting the market and melting snow made us slightly concerned as to whether we would get back home at all or whether the rising waters of the Mosel River would flood the road and block our way back home.
Christmas markets in Germany are a major tourist draw. They run for a month leading up to Christmas and most towns and cities have their own Christmas Market. Most of the stalls are hot food stalls and the main thing people do it seems is come to the markets to drink hot wine, eat bratwurst, drink hot wine and yes, drink more hot wine, and then again drink more hot wine. The markets all differ in the way they are operated, but the standards of the stalls are very consistently high and immaculately well decorated for Christmas.
Tomorrow we are off to find the goose for Christmas. Then find something to bake it in. :) Or perhaps we will do it the other way around.
John and I have travelled from one pharmacy to another searching for an ointment that will take the itch of bed bugs away. We had an horrendous hotel two nights ago that left us covered in welts and itching all over our bodies as we suffer the effects of nasty little rotters that feasted on our fresh blood. Dont' stay at Hotel Coblanz in Mainz.
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