Christmas Markets 2024

Susan’s Travel Blog – Christmas Markets Tour! Weather: Rainy, 48 degrees F° Place: Basel, Switzerland Food Overview:Eating and drinking are key elements of each Christmas market. Of course, one must have some Gluhwein to stay warm while strolling the market, and to offset the wine, food is in order! Gluhwein is a heated mulled wine with spices. While we did find it made mostly red wines, there were also some whites on offer (sorry, warm white wine doesn’t do it for me!). In a

Susan’s Travel Blog – Christmas Markets Tour! Date: December 9, 10 and 11, 2024 Weather: Rainy, 48 degrees F° Place: Strasbourg, France Information: Joyeaux Noel! Our group has moved onto Strasbourg, France, which has one of the largest and older Christmas markets in Europe. Our guide shared with us that there are actually 13 markets in the city, with the most famous in the City Center. It is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France, at th

Susan's Christmas Markets Blog Date: December 7. 2024 Weather: Rainy, 48 degrees F° Place: Frieberg, Germany Information: Hello and Frohe Weihnachten (Merry Christmas in German)! We are visiting Freiberg, Germany! Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, known as the Silver City, with around 41,000 inhabitants. It sits on the Freiberger Mulde, a tributary of the Mulde River. The entire historic center of the Silver City is under monument protect

Dates: December 7, 2024 Weather: 40 or so with lots of wind and rain As we traverse west towards France, we've spent time in Germany's Black Forest - home of Hansel and Gretl and cuckoo clocks! It's lovely country, heavily-forested and lots of agriculture. One of our stops was the Rheinfell waterfall - third largest in Europe! The Ravenna Gorge, within the Black Forest, is home to a unique Christmas market, located in the Gorge under a railway trestle that reminds me of

Date: December 5/6. 2024 Weather: Rainy, 48 degrees F° Place: Lucerne, Switzerland Information: Have been visiting lovely Lucerne, Switzerland for the last two days! It’s so beautiful here – and clean! Located on Lake Lucerne, it’s a middle-sized town, focused on sports and tourism! It’s been raining – not a problem for this Pacific NW person! Known for it’s lovely position on the lake, and it’s stunning Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered bridge and con

Date: December 4, 2024 Place: Portland, Oregon (Portland International Airport) Information: Departing today for our wonderful Christmas Markets tour, arriving tomorrow in Zurich, Switzerland, with a transfer to Lucerne, Switzerland! Traveling with some old friends, and I hope to make new ones in our group! Our tour is 10 days and will cover the Black Forest in Germany and parts of the Alsace region in France. We are ending in Strasbourg, France! More to follow!