Christmas Markets

04 December 2016, 00:31

Big Wonderful Wyoming

Christmas Markets

We have been hitting the local Christmas markets and decided to make it to Trier today. Wonderful but small and very crowded.

We are going to try the Rodenberg au Taber next week some time. It was a bit more of a drive than I wanted to buy into this morning.

04 December 2016, 04:27

boarkiller

You are having too much fun there
Enjoy it

" Until the day breaks and the nights shadows flee away " Big ivory for my pillow and 2.5% of Neanderthal DNA flowing thru my veins.
When I'm ready to go, pack a bag of gunpowder up my ass and strike a fire to my pecker, until I squeal like a boar.
Yours truly , Milan The Boarkiller - World according to Milan
PS I have big boar on my floor...but it ain't dead, just scared to move...

Man should be happy and in good humor until the day he dies...
Only fools hope to live forever
“ Hávamál”

04 December 2016, 08:16

Fjold

My nephew and his wife live in Ramstein and are doing the Christmas markets now also.

Frank

"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money."
- Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953

NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite

04 December 2016, 13:55

Big Wonderful Wyoming

@ Fjold,

Is he a hunter? If please extend the olive branch for me. I am starting my Jagdschein class in March. It is the next one in the region.

@Boarkiller,

Yes we are, we move into our house in a couple weeks. Trying to find a second vehicle. Cars are a pain in the ass here.

Great boss, great brand new office, can't complain. A building next to my office has a German military canteen. They have Jager Schnitzel that is out of this world for 7 Euro with fries, and a salad.

Last night we had currywurst, 4 or 5 different preztels with cheese, sausage, onions on them, two bottles of apple schorle and it was about 13 Euro.

Love it here!

04 December 2016, 18:58

Fjold

quote:
Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
@ Fjold,

Is he a hunter? If please extend the olive branch for me. I am starting my Jagdschein class in March. It is the next one in the region.

@Boarkiller,

Yes we are, we move into our house in a couple weeks. Trying to find a second vehicle. Cars are a pain in the ass here.

Great boss, great brand new office, can't complain. A building next to my office has a German military canteen. They have Jager Schnitzel that is out of this world for 7 Euro with fries, and a salad.

Last night we had currywurst, 4 or 5 different preztels with cheese, sausage, onions on them, two bottles of apple schorle and it was about 13 Euro.

Love it here!

My nephew's not a hunter, unfortunately.

04 December 2016, 19:20

boarkiller

quote:
Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:
@ Fjold,

Is he a hunter? If please extend the olive branch for me. I am starting my Jagdschein class in March. It is the next one in the region.

@Boarkiller,

Yes we are, we move into our house in a couple weeks. Trying to find a second vehicle. Cars are a pain in the ass here.

Great boss, great brand new office, can't complain. A building next to my office has a German military canteen. They have Jager Schnitzel that is out of this world for 7 Euro with fries, and a salad.

Last night we had currywurst, 4 or 5 different preztels with cheese, sausage, onions on them, two bottles of apple schorle and it was about 13 Euro.

Love it here!

Good for you
I'm heading over there ( Czech lands ) in January
Try some pig hunting now
Rut is on and boars come calling on sows
It lasts into January

07 December 2016, 05:04

AnotherAZWriter

I spent a week in Vienna just before Christmas; also traveled into the Alps. Wow, great time.

13 December 2016, 09:08

Big Wonderful Wyoming

We did Rothenberg a. d. Tauber last weekend. Wondeful place.

It seems both the Allieds and Germans did not want Rothenberg to get destroyed, so they negotiated a deal to keep it alive.

Amazing place, loved it.

We are going to enjoy not living in a hotel now that we are moving in our house this weekend. We have a lot of things to get started on this week here. We are headed to Jagd and Hund in Dortmond, if we can find a hotel room big enough for all 5 of us. If not I'll just day trip it. But it is 3 hours away. Big family travel in Europe seems a lot harder. I had a hard time finding a hotel meant for 5 people.

15 December 2016, 02:17

Kuwinda

.......I feel sure there must be a very, very long word in German signifying "complete-over-indulgence-in-Christmas-markets".

Had a few days with my wife in Berlin on the way to a driven boar hunt in Poland last week - vast quantities of gluhwine, bratwurst and gemuchtlekeit. Christmas over-indulgence bit time.

The piggies were good though - well two days out of three. Unfortunately the camera flash was broken.

15 December 2016, 23:11

mdstewart

Lived in Nuremberg for 3 years while in the Army. Best Christmas Market I've seen.

JP Sauer Drilling 12x12x9.3x72
David Murray Scottish Hammer 12 Bore
Alex Henry 500/450 Double Rifle
Steyr Classic Mannlicher Fullstock 6.5x55
Steyr Classic Mannlicher Fullstock .30-06
Walther PPQ H2 9mm
Walther PPS M2
Cogswell & Harrison Hammer 12 Bore Damascus
And Too Many More

22 December 2016, 10:00

Big Wonderful Wyoming

We have small children 5, 3, 1 so we only go early in the day. The party aspect of it hasn't usually started until we are gone.