Unlike Irene, I wasn't all that enthusiastic about Christmas Markets. However, things started to change as I read and saw more about Christmas Markets in newspapers and on TV over the last few weeks. Apparently, girls have always been interested in Christmas Markets because of the shopping opportunities they present but guys don't mind going either because of the abundance of German beer and food that is around every corner. As one magazine put it, going to German Christmas Markets is all about eating and drinking; the shopping is just something to do in between meals!
With this knowledge at hand, I was looking forward to our first taste of Cologne Christmas Markets at London Southbank. Every year, hordes of German people bring their wares to the UK for a few weeks to set up shop at makeshift Christmas Markets. Upon arrival, one of the first things we did was buy some yummy German sausages in a roll and mulled wine. Yum! Then we bought an ostrich burger. Yum! And finally we started to trawl through the market, seeing a variety of novel gifts on offer.
Strolling through the relatively small Christmas market, we did more than our fair share of boosting the UK and German economy, having bought a wooden chess set, two beanies, other German crafts, warm apple juice, warm punch, crepe, more sausage in a roll, German pizza, water chestnut, churros, etc.
That was a great taste of what is to come in Cologne Germany! Hopefully the one is Cologne is much much bigger.
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