Before Luxemburg...
Since it's Christmas time...well getting closer to Christmas anyways...we decided that we better check out the Christmas markets around Switzerland. Apparently Switzerland (as well as everywhere else in Europe I'm assuming; especially Germany) is known for these markets that occur every year around December until Christmas I guess. So Brian, Pat and I randomly picked a place and ended up going to St. Gallen for the day.
St. Gallen was a pretty nice village; I don't really know how big it is or anything because we basically just stayed around the Old Town area. This is where the majority of the markets take place and where all the best Christmas decorations are.
Unfortunately we didn't go at night so it wasn't that dark; therefore the Christmas lights didn't look as good as they would have but that's alright it was still neat. The markets here, like all the other markets we have seen so far, consist of lots of different stuff. Everything Christmas of coarse; ranging from candles, to knitted sweaters and mittens, to jewelery. Also every market has many food/snack tables where you can sample different things...if you are thinking about buying something, and of coarse they have Glüwein. Glüwein is spiced wine; which is a special Swedish drink. Everywhere around Switzerland there are venues set up selling roasted chestnuts; apparently they have these as soon as it starts to get cold outside. Every train station you get off, Christmas market you go to....and street corner basically there are stands selling roasted chestnuts. It is actually a pretty tasty little snack; they taste like potatoes almost with a bit of a sweet taste too. We get them often since it's the thing to do!
Here are some pictures of St. Gallen at Christmas time:
In St. Gallen we saw something very unusual and had to take some photos of it. Even though this has nothing to do with Christmas:
In St. Gallen we saw something very unusual and had to take some photos of it. Even though this has nothing to do with Christmas:
3 comments:
wow, that red thing is really weird!! what is it? lol Well it looks really interesting, it must be really neat to see what it is like around Christmas time and stuff. Keep having fun!
-Alyssa Parkin
The red stuff we think was cement or pavement painted red. And they must have poured it all over real furniture and a car......haha, or more likely they just did molds of those things but still it was pretty sweet.
Louise and Brian
That hovering egg thing is a model referring to the work of Constantin Brancussi.
[/art history nerd]
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