Oh my goodness! The Christmas Markets in Strasbourg, France are Amazing!
But before I tell you about them let’s go back a couple of months. So back in September my husband suggested going to Strasbourg, France, Germany and Switzerland for Thanksgiving to do something different this year. We figured since our oldest daughter hasn’t spent Thanksgiving with us in five years and our adult son doesn’t care to fly or what he does for the holidays, why not. Of course we took our youngest daughter with us. Oh and by the way the plane tickets to Zurich, Switzerland are seriously cheap for Thanksgiving.
Okay so let’s get back to these Christmas Markets. In all honesty I had no idea what to expect with these markets. I watched one or two YouTube videos about them, but that’s about it. So pretty much what I thought I was going to see were a couple of booths with Christmas ornaments and stuff in a town square and that was it.
When we finally got to the Markets I was completely blown away. It wasn’t just a simple market area in a town square. It was more like tons of different sections in the middle of a city that was dedicated to Christmas. I mean these Markets were unreal. There was a section for decorations, a section for food, a section for drinks, a section for jewelry and the list goes on and on.
We ended up going to two towns with Christmas Markets. One in Strasbourg and the other in Colmar both are in France. Oh, and we went to a small town Christmas market in the town of Munster, France. These Christmas Markets are so ridiculously big that we got lost a bunch of times which had us laughing and walking in circles. Our first time at both markets we mainly looked around. We bought very few items because we wanted to be sure of what we were buying and who we were buying for. The second time around we shopped till we dropped hahaha. We went crazy! We found so many cute Christmas presents for our family and friends. We also found some cool presents for each other. I found a bracelet, a ring and lots of teddy bear items for myself.
Let’s talk about the food and drinks now shall we. We tried almost all the hot drinks they had and we bought the cute little cups the drinks came in. We drank hot orange juice, hot strawberry/apple drink. We tried some mould apple cider and mould red wine. All the drinks were tasty. Oh, the food! We ate pretzels, chocolate covered marshmallows and crepes.
All in all I would have to say I had an amazing experience at these Christmas Markets in France and I would highly recommend them to anyone. They are beyond fun to walk around and to shop at. Yes, they are well worth flying to no matter where in the world you live. I can’t tell you how many time I thanked my husband for taking us to these markets. And I can’t tell you how many times I kept saying wow, but it was a lot.
Kathleen Smith is an indie author and blogger. You can read about her Christmas’s growing up and after she got married in Good-bye Brooklyn Hello Upstate