Sunday, December 04, 2005

Weihnachtsmarkt (Christmas Market). December 2005

Visit to the Weihnachtsmarkt in Bremen. For the ones who never heard about these markets, there you find all kinds of Christmas gifts especially traditional Christmas figurines or toys made of wood. But the Weihnachtsmarkt is known for the "Glühwein" (mulled wine), heat wine with sugar and spices that everyone will drink at least once during the winter...

Here with the cup of "Feuerzangenbowle", another traditional drink of the Christmas Market, basically a punch with wine and rum. They have the wine with the spices in a large pot and above it they place a sugar cone. What they do then is to pour some rum on to the sugar and let it soak for a while. And finally they light the sugar, that caramelizes and drips into the punch. Personally that one is better than the Glühwein.
Here you already see us with the cups of Glühwein (this time, the cup has the shape of a shoe)
After that, we went to an old brewery that has been preparing its own beer for about a hundred years. Maybe some of you recognise the place, because there i celebrated my birthday last year.
For the next picture, some explanation is needed but first say that the image could wound the sensibility of some spectators.....
I was playing around with my digital camera when some friends made me aware of the fact that something was happening in front of one of our tables. I went there and i saw what you will see here in a second. Suddenly, the waiter comes to me and says :
Waiter - " i know what you pretend to do "
Me - " ohh...no....no...you're wrong...."
Waiter - " let me do it ..."
and took my camera, posed himself behind the "subject of study" and took the picture while some friends (of the subject of study) were clearly seeing him taking the picture. No one said nothing...the camera came back to me... and you see here the result
(what a story i had to make up to explain it.... ;-) but i swear i told the truth and nothing but the truth :-) )

I guess that the girl sitting in front of her told the lady about it...but she did not care. (In my personal opinion, it is normal to "show", accidentally, the upper part of the G-string...but the bottom part!!). Twenty minutes later, the same waiter that took the picture came to her and told her something. Then finally the girl covered herself.......:-)

And after this "incidence" ... we went to dance a bit to Römer...
Sure there will be more about Weihnachtsmarkt this year (they close one or two days before Christmas Eve). It is a very popular "after-work" activity..... :-)