Frankfurt Photo Diary Part 1 - The Christmas Market!

Friday 7 December 2012


Hello, I'm back! I had a fantastic time in Frankfurt visiting family, and I really enjoyed taking in all of the sights of the city.  I have some photos to share from my trip and thought I'd break them down into two posts.  The first part which you can see below is all about the amazing Christmas Market!


Frankfurt's Christmas market (Weihnachtsmarkt) is a popular tourist attraction every year and is a wonderful place to get yourself in the festive mood!  In recent years, many of the traders have decided to bring a taste of this Christmas market to Birmingham, but nothing ever beats the real thing if you get the chance to visit it!  The market is pure heaven for those wanting to indulge in good food and drink, but it also offers a wide range of christmassy gifts, many of which are handmade.

As you can imagine, the Christmas market gets very busy and crowded, but everyone I spoke to was really friendly and helpful.  It's open from around midday to late at night (most stalls close around 10/11pm, but some of the food and drink stands are open later, especially at the weekend) and you can visit it from 26th November - 23rd December.  More info here.

Photos: 1.  Delicious Schokokuss! These are basically like a chocolate covered teacake but you have wafer at the bottom instead of biscuit.  The ones sold at the market were flavoured with all kinds of things like Rum, Amaretto etc and you can get them in GIANT sizes for 2€ each!  2.  Enormous chocolate covered pretzels.  3.  A market stall all lit up at night.  4.  Christmas scented pot pourri.  5. Many of the stalls were like little wooden huts.  6.  Gingerbread treats galore.  7.  Pretty baubles.  8. Traditional German architecture.   

9.  Make your own wooden train set.  10.  The famous handcrafted Nutcrackers!  11.  Lots of cuddly toys.  12.  Handmade star lanterns.  13.  Amaretto covered nuts anyone?  14.  The German fast food favourite, Currywurst! This is a sliced sausage covered in a curry flavoured ketchup, yum!  I had mine with pomme frites mit mayo :)  15.  There were lots of stalls dedicated to handmade beeswax and honey produce.  These festive beeswax candles were very popular.  16.  Booze everywhere!  17.  Little round drinks huts.  18.  Hot Apfelwein (Apple wine), the national drink and absolutely delicious!  Mine came with a slice of lemon and a stick of cinnamon.

I'll be posting a giveaway later today, so keep your eyes peeled for that!  Part 2 of the Photo Diary will be uploaded tomorrow :)

Just wanted to say a big thanks to all of the lovely beauty bloggers who did Guest Posts for me!  If you missed any, have a read of them here.

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26 comments

  1. Delicious, since I have Austrian DNA this is how I know Christmas to be :) Looks like you had an amazing time

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    1. That's so cool - I do think the Europeans know how to celebrate Christmas better than the British do ;)

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  2. Everything looks so pretty & tasty. After reading this post Im seriously craving sweets:)
    Sara xx
    http://beautifulworldoflennynb.blogspot.ca/

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  3. Hello from another Frankfurt blogger!! If you are still around here, let's hang out at the xmas market!I LOVE LOVE it there!

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    1. Hello! I wish I was still there - I'm missing Currywurst and Apfelwein SO much :(
      I love your blog btw, you always post such yummy photos of food! x

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    1. It was great, definitely go over if you can at some point! Thanks again for guest posting for me :) x

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  5. Great photographs, we have a lot of german/swiss/austrian/french markets at this time of year in Manchester which are great but I imagine the originals are better :)


    www.ofbeautyandnothingness.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. Ooo I'll have to check those out! Yeah, you can't beat the originals :)

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  6. I really want to go to an actual German market, hopefully next year.
    It looks amazing- especially those chocolate pretzels!
    Daniella x

    http://daniella-r.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. You'd love it, there's so much yummy food! x

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  7. Looks so beautiful! We had some of the cinnamon cakes as featured in the first photo at the Edinburgh German Christmas Market today - delicious (and lots of mulled wine!) x

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  8. Great photos! :) We've got a continental market here at the mo, it always comes around xmas but I'd love to visit a real one.
    xo

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    1. Thanks! :) Yeah you can't beat the real thing! x

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  9. Great pictures!! I love Xmas markets... They also do one here in Glasgow, but can't compete with the real deal. :) xx

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    1. Definitely - for me it's just the whole atmosphere and hearing lots of different languages :) xx

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  10. So jealous - would love to go! X

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  11. I want to go to a German Christmas market so much, they just look so festive I know they do them in the UK but they never look as good. Oh and yum yum at the currywurst, I didn't actually try it when I visited Berlin but I made it myself back home and it is sooo good! x

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    1. So jealous you've been to Berlin, it's definitely on my places to visit soon list! I'll have to make some currywurst at home, love that stuff! x

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  12. Wooow I love christmas markets, this would be like heaven to me!

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