The season for Christmas Markets and sparkling street and window decorations has come. And as many of the new lights are energy efficient LEDs nowadays, we don't even need to have a bad conscience!
Most Germans prefer a moderately modest style, secretly admiring the daring concoctions in other countries : No blinking colourful lightchains like in the US, no red, blue and green reindeers, no chimney-climbing and waving Santa Clauses could be found until a couple of years ago. As everything what we seem to do, reasonably tasteful and certainly not ostentatious, strings of lights in the shape of trees and snow stars to brighten up the dark shopping hours at this time of year.
Christmas decorations Unter den Linden, Berlin
Weihnachtsmarkt on Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
and on Alexanderplatz
There is a Christmas Market aka "Winterwonderland" in Hyde Park, London, which has grown out of bounds and turned into a fun fair. One can buy a real "curry wurst" in the "Alpenhütte" - we gave it a try, nothing like the real thing and on top of that sold by Pakistani immigrants with not a German word, who would never eat that stuff themselves, but it's the effort that counts ... as long as "der Rubel rollt".
a yellow (rein)deer
Christmas market on the Thames, London
.... and on Frankfurt's "Fressgass"
.... and on Frankfurt's "Fressgass"
This year, Bad Homburg joined New York and London and for the first time installed a temporary ice rink in our Kurpark!
... a tiny one in front of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Spa ...
Another temporary Eisbahn : here on top of the "MyZeil" shopping centre in Frankfurt.
At the Natural History Museum - London
At the Rockefeller Center - New York
Individuals in the pursuit of happiness
Individuals in the pursuit of happiness
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