Tired of those huge Christmas markets that look promising from the outside, but are really just repeats of the same stalls over and over again (lebkuchen gingerbread hearts and wooden …
Stockholm Gamla Stan Christmas Market Review “Stockholm in the winter? Are you insane?” This was the standard reaction I received when I announced the addition of Stockholm to my Christmas …
Is it possible to have seen too many Christmas markets? I didn’t think so before our whirlwind market trip through Vienna, Salzburg and Munich. By the time we’d hit Munich, …
Dancers garbed in Renaissance attire. Vendors role-playing medieval characters. Blacksmiths crafting medieval weapons. These were the descriptions I’d read of the Medieval Christmas market in Munich’s Wittlesbacherplatz square. I wasn’t …
When souvenir shopping in London, the best gifts come in pretty packages I am not usually seduced by pretty packaging when souvenir shopping. Give me a homely but delicious cookie …
Like most muggles, I almost missed Platform 9 3/4 entirely. Tucked deep into an alcove to the right of the entrance for platform 9, the 9 3/4 platform sign and …