The winter challenge has begun, and with it, we can write about places and travel-related topics that we connect with winter. For me the first thing coming to mind is the Christmas markets we have here in Germany every year.
Especially here in the south of the country, in our capital - Munich, we have a lot of them. In German we call them Weihnachtsmärkte (Christmas markets) or Christkindlmärkte (Market of Crist).
During Advent, Munich has over 30 Christmas and Christkindl markets, some lasting only a few days and some throughout a whole few weeks. The one we visited in Pasing only is open on the weekends before Christmas - Saturday and Sunday from 13:00 - 19:30 o clock.
Today we went to the one in Pasing. A part in Munich, where I used to live long time ago. It is a quite small Christmas market with only 22. Stands. Here you can see an overview of them.
A friend of mine has a stand there that sells mulled wine and tarte flambée, so we went there to meet her and check out the rest of the stands.
I love how from far away you can already see all the lights and smell the different food and drinks.
Entering the market we walked along the stands. Usually, people go to these markets for 4 things:
- Food and drinks
- buying artwork
- listen to live Christmas music
- Take some rides and play games
So we started walking along the stands and checked out everything before drinking some of the mulled wine and eating the tarte flambée. It was nice to see her and her family, drinking hot drinks and eating there while listening to the Christmas songs. At the same time, I was surprised how many people were there at that time already.
Standing there for some time it got cold and foggy, so it felt even more like Christmas time and the lights were shining giving even more atmosphere. - Sorry @ninaeatshere for not taking any pictures of the food and drinks. I will think of it next time ;)
The most common foods on these markets are sausages, spätzle, crepe, raclette baguette, tarte flambée and sweet things. In bigger markets, the food also gets more international serving Asian, Mexican, or Italian food.
The most common drinks are mulled wine, punch, hot caipirinha, hot Lillet, Feuerzangenbowle, hot rum, and eggnog.
The food and drinks were great as always. After that, we went to check out the artwork. Most of the time you can buy different kinds of oil, wines, beeswax candles, clay vessels, stuffed animals, decorations, jewelry etc.
The kids were enjoying the rides and some of the people were singing along to the live music.
As we were walking around the market it got colder and colder. Without the mulled wine even more. So at some point, we decided to go home again and enjoy the rest of the weekend. The visit to the Christmas market was also the start of Advent for us. From now on, the spirit of Christmas has caught up with us and the mood has been internalized, just in time for the Worldmappin Winter Challenge. ;)
Cheers, Liz
The German Christmas markets are so charming, mi brother in law live there and told me that is a magical city during Xmas 🎁🎁
I didn´t know its a German thing. As i grew up like that I thoughts its normal :D
Christmas vibes are everywhere!
Oh yes - already! Not sure I am ready for it yet hahaha
Waooo!! 🤩🤩 que hermoso la navidad en tu país @lizanomadsoul, amo siempre está época del año y además los contenidos relacionados con esta fecha en hive, muy lindo todas las imágenes amiga !!! Gracias por compartir, saludos desde cuba 🇨🇺🤗👏
Siiii, aqui lo celebramos con toda la corazon @ibarra95! Como lo celebran en Cuba? Nunca he ido a tu isla en diciembre hmm. Saludos devuelta desde Alemania.
Bueno en cuba 🇨🇺, se celebra navidad pero no tanto como en países fríos, y de grandes culturas en esta época ☃️, aquí se adornan algunos provincia, restaurantes y hogares, pero no al nivel de ustedes allá tan hermoso 🤩😍@lizanomadsoul, pero si se celebra el 31 de diciembre en familia y todo bien bonito, para esperar el año nuevo 🪅..
Cool! Pues seria buenissimo si nos traes un poco de sol al frio europeo @ibarra95! Me gustaria ver como se celebre alli ❤️❤️
Trataré de crear un post, bien lindo para la fecha @lizanomadsoul 😊👏. Iré por los lugares navideños más adornados de mi ciudad 🎄 para que vean como se celebra en mi país 🙏🏻.
Wow...beautiful. Christmas is in the air. This makes me remember hiw good it feels to celebrate at my home town.
This is so lovely 🤩
Enjoy the Christmas season 🎊
Thanks @love1506! Will do for sure =) and now with the @worldmappin #winterchallenge even more!
Yayyyyy 👍
Even though I'm not a big fan of winter, I love the light nights in cold weather, when people get together and enjoy the festivities. The colorful lights, the hot drinks in the cold weather, and the beautiful gifts all warm the heart. This Christmas market is the clearest example of this. Thank you @lizanomadsoul for inviting us into the market🤗🎄🎄
I am also not a big fan of winter @passenger777 😂. Before settling down here I was escaping winter as much as I could. - Especially the cold and dark of it. But with this @worldmappin #winterchallenge I am focusing on the positive, and christmas markets are one of it 😎☀️ - Glad you like it as well and thanks for stopping by! Looking forward to your entries already!
It looks like a magicland!
Hahhaa all the christmas markets here are like that @irisworld❤️😎 maybe you should come by one day and check them out.
The season has begun! I can only imagine how many of us have been waiting to splurge on Xmas market goodies for the entire year🤩
Hahaha It sure has @creativemary! I got my first one yesterday! bought a very cute selfmade stuffed animal, that is super cute.
That looks so beautiful! I've never visited Germany before, but now after seeing your post, makes me want to do it during the Christmas season when the opportunity comes! lol
Hahaha depends on what you like. I would always recommend you to come in summer, cause there is so much more to do and see around here, but of course Christmas market is only in winter 😎 Anyways if you do let me know and I show you around @gabrielatravels❤️
Sure will! Thanks for the advice ❤️
Always @gabrielatravels🐝😎❤️
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Always on point
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My favourite time of the year :)
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really? I do prefer summer tbh. But the christmas markets are nice. What do you like about winter time the most @delilhavores?
I simply love the colours of the lights in the streets, the magical atmosphere, looking at the snow falling from the window ❤️
Thats true @delilhavores! The atmosphere is just unique. The cold and darkness also brings some silence with it, that can help to calm down a little and enjoy the moment even more.
I love all the different vendors at the market. I can only imagine how delightful it would be to try so many things. I would surely have to have the crepes and maybe find a nice bottle of wine for later.
Yes, its a very nice cute, and small market @sunscape. Maybe next week we manage to go to the biggest - my favorite one. The atmosphere there is just magical! - But in the end it doesn´t matter which Christmas market you are at, it always seems that its just a great place to get together with your friends and have a good time :)
Greetings and Merry Christmas, I really like these dates because of all the atmosphere that is lived, as I see in the city where you are, everything is beautiful.
Oh yes, we have Christmas decoration everywhere and over 30 markets all over the city.. here definitely we have atmosphere ☀️
But I saw that on your side it's also quite nice! Congrats to the TD top 1st! ☀️ Thanks for showing us around.
Yes, my city also dressed up for the holidays hehehehee thank you very much.
❤️😎☀️ - Yes, I could see that! Well it was well deserved!
Yes, my city also dressed up for the holidays hehehehee thank you very much.
Yes, my city also dressed up for the holidays hehehehee thank you very much.
I'm so excited to read all the entries of the #winterchallenge :D
Haha me tooo @itravelrox! Looking forward to yours as well ❤️☀️
@lizanomadsoul, I just published a few mins ago. :D
Awesome!
Great walk and site seeing, lovely photos
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Thanks @oasiskp2. Glad you liked it.
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I really want to experience Christmas with snow 🌨️
haha it has its charm for sure! but don´t forget the cold! I loved having Christmas and new years in the warm for once when I experienced it. I guess we are always curious about the things we are not used to ❤️😎
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Hola muy interesante tu post. Verdaderamente esta época del año es encantadora. Es el momento de reunirnos y compartir con familia y amigos. Saludos desde Cuba. Gracias por compartir
Gracias por pasar aqui y dejar un comentario @reneyasmany <3 Que bueno q te gustó el post. Siento lo mismo. Es una buena epoca para reunirnos todos :)
Saludos a cuba desde alemania 😘
You guys are so famous for your Christmas markets. I had such a great time in Cologne and Dusseldorf last year visiting all the Christmas markets
It's good to hear you had a great time here, @livinguktaiwan! When I thought about entries for the winter challenge, it was the first thing that came to my mind. - The atmosphere there is really unique - didn´t know we are famous for it though.
Yup, Germans have a good reputation for Christmas markets in UK!
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Don´t take it personally, but a bit overrewarded for a few relatively low quality pics and a little text.
I didn´t do the upvotes @stayoutoftherz - so sadly can´t control it. If you know my posts you know normally they are much longer and highest quality. This one I mainly made to showcase - give an example on worldmappin winter challenge. Didn´t think it would go that high in payout tbh. - Feel free to downvote, I honestly don´t care about the money part of hive. :)