X-Mas Down in Dogpatch
Posted by in Living at 5:16 p.m. on Nov. 28th, 200413 Comments 0 Pings
It’s Christmas time again. The Christkindlsmarkt is open, the Glühwein is flowing copiously, and I’ll be damned if the concession stands outside aren’t selling reindeer-burgers. Reindeer? At Christmas? You have to hand it to the Germans; despite their abysmal statist politics, they offer absolutely no quarter to the PETA crowd.
Here are some horribly grainy photos, taken with my phone, of the Augsburg town square, where this year’s Christmas Market is in full swing
City Hall and Town Square, Augsburg
Augsburg’s Christmas Tree
Lots of people chugging Glühwein (hot mulled wine). It’ll warm your cockles.
Maybe I’ll take a real camera out some time and get some pics for you folks. Christmas time is really beautiful over here, and this year it looks like we’ll get some snow, too.
Comments
Velociworld
November 29, 2004 at 4:37 a.m.:<strong>I'll Take the Double Donderburger</strong>
Mit Sauerkraut, Araber. Rube is feasting on reindeer, and I am so jealous....
zonker
November 29, 2004 at 2:28 p.m.:Wow...Augsburg looks a heck of a lot like the scenery I saw in Helen, Georgia during my walk back from the bar. The focus is PERFECT.
Rick
November 29, 2004 at 10:54 p.m.:When I saw that picture, I said "Damn! That looks like Augsburg!" I was born and raised there and later my brothers were born there and went to the American high school across the BX/Commissary complex. During Christmas, I have left many pints of semi-digested knockwurst and gluwein mix on those cobblestone walkways. To keep my inner demons at bay, I claim I did it for the children.
Flashman
December 2, 2004 at 8:21 p.m.:Hey Rube --
I was heartened by the news that Der Deutscher gibt kein quarter to the PETA idiots, but the threat is growing: http://www.PETA2.de
Sollten wir sie zerstren, bevor sie sich vllig entwickeln (wie in den USA)?
Flash
Rube
December 2, 2004 at 8:26 p.m.:Yo, Flashman! Ich glaube da in diesem Fall Abtreibung vllig in Ordnung ist ;-)
Bob Baird
November 28, 2004 at 9:42 p.m.:Don't change a thing. The only thing lacking is a splitting headache that's delivered with the rising of tomorrow's sun.
Bob