German Christmas Market

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We enjoyed another trip to

Germany

where our friends Rhonda and Georgia not only gave us room and board, but took us to no less than five German Christmas Markets. The Christmas fairs and markets of

Germany

are unique and the gifts are not mass-produced but craftwork of real quality. We wondered the streets with mugs of “Glühwein"or mulled wine each served in a souvenir mug (we now own five new mugs), eating roasted chestnuts, grilled wursts, toasted nuts, more wine, gingerbread, fried potato cakes with apple sauce, wine…….

Christmas cookies at the Mainz Christmas market which was first mentioned in official records back in 1788

Johannes Gutenberg, Mainz's most famous son, greets visitors from an eleven-meter Christmas pyramid made in the Erzgebirge mountains

Rhonda, Cari and Sheri waving from the Monument to Emperor William I in the 2000-year-old town of Koblenz located at the intersection of the Rhine and Moselle rivers (click on image for better view)

Wiesbaden where the picturesque Schlossplatz was the spectacular setting for Wiesbaden's Sternschnuppenmarkt (Shootingstars) Christmas market. The decorations - golden lilies and the colors blue and gold - at the nostalgic craft market reflect the town's coat of arms

Eating and drinking Glühwein at the Kolbenz Christmas Market

Georgia made a wonderful Rachlette meal http://www.raclette.com.au/raclette_info/the_raclette_meal.html complete with local wine

Warming our hands in the small village of Bacharach, named for Bacchus, the ancient Roman god of wine, is a medieval walled town only meters from the river's banks. Behind us is the Altes Haus, or old house. This red and white building dating back to 1368 is the oldest still standing in Bacharach.

The Nativity scene at our favorite German tourist town, Rudesheim

We wondered the streets with mugs of “Glühwein"or mulled wine each served in a souvenir mug (we now own five new mugs), eating roasted chestnuts, grilled wursts, toasted nuts, more wine, gingerbread, fried potato cakes with apple sauce, wine…….