A parent’s tale
German Christmases are world renowned. Christmas markets entice passers-by with their seductive scents of mulled wine and sweet roasted almonds. There is the promise of thawing the winter chill away with a cup of hot mulled wine by the inviting light of an ‘offenes Feuer’*. Real Christmas trees tastefully sprinkled with twinkling lights tower above shoppers and cheerily counter the darkness of the early evenings and chill of the winter cold. Yes, I do love a German Christmas market.