Germany Christmas Markets

[PWA]

Cologne. It isn't tat like all the others. Quality goods for your Deutsch Mark, I mean Euro.

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Just be AMAZED at how seriously they take Christmas shopping. And remember ... nobody NEEDS that many Christmas decorations.

Lord B,have you not put your sprouts on yet ?

 

[1234andcounting]

Loved Koln's six (I think) Christmas markets. Nuremberg really only has the one doesn't it...There is tat, but there is also some good stuff. I love the lichthausen, small model houses that you can put tablelights inside. Have four of them now. Strasbourg's is also excellent, like Koln, in the shadow of a spectacular cathedral.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Berlin is immense

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Tirer great German city nice Christmas markets fab museum and Roman buildings highly recomend

Trier is a lovely old German city.
If you live in the Midlands, let the German market come to you and visit Lincoln. Lots of gluhwein, carvings, food and ornaments.

 

[TheJasperCo]

Went to Cologne last year, there are 7 separate markets each with a different theme. Going back again this year and visiting Aachen too.

Worth driving over in order to bring beer back from the German supermarkets.

I went on a school trip to Aachen a few years ago. We stayed in a pretty mediocre guest house, but the area itself is absolutely breathtaking. We didn't go at Christmas time, but I'd recommend it as a destination any time of the year, for sure.

 

[gregbrighton]

If you wanted to get ripped off at a German Xmas market you could've just gone to Manchester

Or go to the shit-fest that's in the "log-cabins" outside Churchill Square.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

Going there on the 15th December, anyone been? recommendations?

Bit controversial but personally I can't forget what they did in both world wars --- so Happy Xmas to us not them

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

If you live in the Midlands, let the German market come to you and visit Lincoln. Lots of gluhwein, carvings, food and ornaments and old tat.

Every Christmas the German market rucks up in Brum by the town hall - every other "shop" is a food / drink outlet. Others sell nic-naks but the common thing is, its a load of old tat just like the local Sunday markets ...