The Adventmarkt is known for having the best Christmas trees around. We got there early to have our pick, as they go very quickly. It's kinda small, but it was easy to get home, and is the perfect size to put on a "bench" right in front of the windowsill. Tomorrow we will begin to decorate it, and we will slowly put more decorations on it in anticipation of Christmas.
While most of the festivities are taking place in the Kartause, we are lucky enough to have a Glühwein booth right outside in the courtyard in front of our flat. In the evenings people gather in the courtyard, and last night a brass quartet was playing Christmas songs throughout the evening.
Glühwein is mulled wine, and in the winter you can get it just about anywhere. Here is the recipe I use to make it:
1 bottle cheap wine (red or white)
1 stick cinnamon
6 whole cloves
2 lemon slices
2-4 Tbs. sugar (adjust to taste, more with dry wine, less with sweet wine)
Cardamon pod (optional)
Combine all ingredients in saucepan and heat over low heat for 1/2 - 1 hour. Do not boil. Taste and add more sugar if it needs it. Strain and serve. You may add a shot of brandy, rum or schnapps if desired.
4 comments:
3 things
1.Maria looks super coute with her pink hat, gloves and scarf
2. that drink sounds YUMMY!
3. Krampus is VARY creepy looking!
I wonder what a one-year old thinks when she wakes up one morning and she and mommy go shopping and bring home a tree! And put it in the house!
I thought the Krampuses were pretty cool, but they were scary looking. A bunch of Franciscan people got in trouble the year I was in Austria because when the Krampuses came they took some of the swords that in one of the rooms in the Kartause and hit the Krampuses back with them, and the Krampuses got angry because apparently the suits are expensive and they were afraid that the swords would break them. I thought it was fair though, and it was funny to watch.
Happy Advent!
John-
You have to post a picture of the Krampus because the ones they have on the net are not the authentic ones...remember, the Gaming Krampuses are like a guild...the suits are very old, passed on from generation to generation, made from the heads and skins of real animals. The Krampuses they have on the web are not the real ones...the real ones are the ones that dance in the Krampuskranchen.
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