It is finally here, my favorite time of year! I love the whole feeling of Christmas, the decorations, family time and the festivities. This is the kind of Christmas that I have only ever been used to and when I moved away it was hard. For three years, I didn’t do anything, my ex wasn’t big on the holidays so I would just let it go. Where I was, in France was a little underwhelming with Christmas decorations, there were a few houses with lights but most of the people didn’t do much.
Then we moved to Hamburg and the Christmas season quickly turned into my favorite again. Every town had a Christmas Market set up with stalls of little things you can buy, like sculpted candles, puppets, toys and of course the traditional Christmas foods like; Glühwein which is essentially red wine heated with spices, lemon and sugar, Lebkuchen are biscuits which are similar to gingerbread and they are very good and during these markets I can always find a Dutch stall that sells Poffertjes which are mini pancakes covered in butter and powdered sugar and I always looked forward to those. During this time of year, I would always make sure that I would take the routes to work that would allow me to walk through as many as I could. I would start in Bergedorf then go to the Hauptbahnhof and then end in Wandsbek. Over there you can feel the Christmas Spirit and it was all around you. Walking through the markets when I was missing home was always nice. Everyone was happy no matter how cold it was, just spending time with family and friends was what mattered and I enjoyed seeing that.
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