Frankfurt Christmas Market

Guten Tag!

Eric and I decided to take the train down to Frankfurt for their Christmas market. We had heard it was much better than Marburg's and wanted to test the theory for ourselves. We decided that it would be best to do the market at night so we went to a museum beforehand. Here we are on our way to the 'Liebieghaus Sculpture Museum'.

This is the museum. It used to be a wealthy guy's vacation home, now it is a museum.

I am wearing my new jacket my mom bought me for Christmas! My readers will be seeing a lot of this jacket in future posts. I got it at the Marburg equestrian store but I will never let it get near a horse. Thanks mom!

The museum is all about sculpture; from ancient times until about the 19th century. They had a lot of really nice pieces. It was a nice change from looking at paintings.

 This was the secret overflow exhibit area that is only open once a month- we timed it right!

After the museum we went off to the Christmas Market! We actually met some friends there who live in Frankfurt. We had a great time wandering around asking them German Christmas culture questions. Somehow I did not get any pictures of them- sorry Sebastian and Katha!

First stop was the honey booth. We sampled a ton of delicious honeys and planned to come back and buy honey and mead. Sadly the booth closed before we got back! I am still thinking about the walnut honey I was not able to buy...

Lots of booths selling sugar!

Here is our first Gluhwein stop. We got fancy clay mugs! It was really crowded so we had to step off onto the side street so that we could stand and enjoy the drinks; that is why Eric's background it not very Christmas market like.

Our next priority was dinner. Eric and I both got soup! It was delicious; we even managed to secure a sticky gluhwein table to eat at.

More shop browsing after dinner. I have had requests for German pottery so I tried to take pictures when I came across it.

Time for more food! Here I am with my chocolate covered marshmallow thing that our friends highly recommended. Eric got a deep fried dough ball. I intentionally had a salad for lunch because I knew this was coming. 

We walked through the super packed Christmas decorations booth. Eric got very excited because they had the exact wooden advent thing his mom has!

A tiny sampling of the Christmas ornaments for sale.

Looking at things is hard! Time for another gluhwein break.

Those shelves in the back are full of french fries! 

The market closed at 9 and it was time to go back to Marburg. The Christmas market was huge! I don't think we saw 1/3 of it. We had a really nice time and were sorry we could not see more.

Auf Wiedersehen!

November 29th!

Guten Tag!

This whole post will be about the events of November 29th- an extremely busy day for us. We started things off with a move!!! We were finally able to leave the University Guest House! Here is Eric waiting for our 2 taxis to arrive:

Our taxis came and were very unhappy about hauling our stuff, even though there was plenty of room for everything and they didn't even help. They dropped us and our stuff along the side of the road at our new place. It was many trips up- 104 stairs to our front door. Eric did most of the hauling while I guarded and tried to move things out of the rain. Here is a snapshot I took of Eric making a trip. Can you find him??

He is easier to find in this one.  

Here is our apartment from the street. It is definitely not the most beautiful architecture but still a vast upgrade from the guest house.

We were all moved in by late afternoon. Here are pictures of the New Apartment!

 Daytime view outside the bedroom window.

Our great view of the castle!

Our great view of 'Chevy's American Diner'.

After we moved in we enjoyed having internet!!! It has been 3 long months of unreliable connection so having Wi-Fi again is a real luxury. Then it was time to head off to the medieval Christmas music concert our friend invited us to. Super ironically the concert was located right next to the guest house- where we had just moved from.

The concert was three guys playing traditional instruments and singing. They explained many of their songs but since it was in German we did not really understand.

After the concert I took this picture of their instrument basket.

We bought the CD!

After the concert it was time for 'Marburg by Night'. Basically they decorate the old town in Christmas lights and all the businesses stay open until midnight. It is also a kick off for the Marburg Christmas market.

Here I am drinking the infamous Glühwein! This is spiced wine with alcohol. Lots of stands were selling it. There is a 2 Euro deposit on the mug but we decided to keep ours.

Here are Christmas Market pictures.

We took a break and got a snack in a bakery.

More pictures of Eric eating! Here he is getting mushrooms.

Here is a picture of our 4 mugs we acquired. The white and green one is actually from last year- we decided to keep it so that you could see that this year and last year were equally ugly.

Auf Wiedersehen!