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Germany, Land of Christmas Markets
Nuremberg is world-famous for its Christmas market but every German town worth its gingerbread has one, too. It isn’t just tourists who flock there but locals, too, all hoping for a white Christmas to create the perfect mood. But this rarely happens. One contributor to the mystique of holiday snow is Charles Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers and the iconic classic, A Christmas Carol. Both featured harsh winters like those experienced by the author in his childhood in mid-19th century England.
Snow or not, after a few sips of holiday cheer it doesn’t make a difference. I visited a Christmas market in Regensburg, which has the perfect medieval setting to make you particularly nostalgic.
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Brenda Arnold