Christmas markets are over? Never mind! You can still recall that atmosphere by cooking punch at your home. Especially, if you serve it in a mug you brought as a souvenir from your last visit to a Christmas market. Punch… (READ MORE)
I love chestnuts! In spring, when white and pink flowers are gleaming on chestnut trees like gorgeous chandeliers. In summer, when the branches full with large, beautifully shaped leaves offer a shadow on hot days. In autumn, when small round… (READ MORE)
Generally speaking, if you choose a train to take you to a Christmas market in Germany, you need a long way to get to the city center from the railway station. The Harbour Christmas Market in Lindau (Lindauer Hafenweihnacht) is… (READ MORE)
Do you love Christmas and are sorry that it is over and you have to wait for the next Christmas one year again? Don’t worry. If you plan to visit Salzburg, you will find a unique museum there – the… (READ MORE)
It is a special song. It has been translated into 300 languages and dialects but always begins with the same words: “Silent Night Holy Night”. Indeed, when people start singing it after the Midnight Mass, I have a feeling that… (READ MORE)
Did you know that roasted almonds belong to the traditional products which can be found at any Christmas market in Vienna? Usually with cinnamon, boiled in sugar water, roasted and caramelized. Also, in my home country, in Slovakia, we use… (READ MORE)
Christmas is coming. Everybody in Vienna says “es weihnachtet”. This special verb means that the streets in the city light up with millions of bulbs, Christmas atmosphere blows from shop windows, there are Advent candleholders in the house windows, children… (READ MORE)
Did you know that even the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had baked “honey cakes” – the forerunner of the gingerbread we know? Honey had been the only widely available sweetener and they had believed it to be a gift… (READ MORE)
A big Christmas tree in the middle of the square, the smell of grilled sausages, gingerbread and roasted marroni. A cup of mulled wine or punch. This is the time of markets which we do not visit because of doing… (READ MORE)
We are living in a hasty time. I am angry when already they start to sell Christmas decorations in the beginning of October as if somebody would like to make our lives even faster… But I know a place where… (READ MORE)
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