That's Merry Christmas in German, and as my mother may remember, it was a spelling word in 6th grade! I just came back from freezing cold Germany. We had snow, we had ice, we had negative temps. (although that is in Celsius...) but the mountains were beautiful!!
The best part was definitely the Christmas markets, the Germans are crazy about Christmas markets. Each town we visited had a Christmas Market set up with food and decorations and sweets. We travelled through a few places, centralled around Frankfurt--one of Europe's largest and also most modern cities--and Heidelberg, where our friend lives and goes to school. Frankfurt has been mostly rebuilt and remodeled entirely since WWII and is now a huge financial capital of Europe. We spent a few hours there, walking through the skyscrapers and plazas and the slush! Heidelberg had the University feel to it, there was a river, and a castle, and mountains. Beautiful.
Most of our time we spent outdoors, touristing the towns we went through, eating at the Christmas markets, visiting the cathedrals and bridges and mountains. A very nice time spent with friends and exploring southwest Germany! Definitely good to be back in Madrid, it's a little warmer here...
Christmas Eve tomorrow, Feliz Navidad to all!
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