CashewNut 🏴@lemmy.world to Ask UK · 8 months agoJust how German are "German Christmas Markets"?message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up121arrow-down1message-squareJust how German are "German Christmas Markets"?CashewNut 🏴@lemmy.world to Ask UK · 8 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
All the staff are bloody English! How am I meant to practice German if none of them bloody speak it?! False advertising.
minus-squareᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝AlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months ago What’s a German Christmas Market They’re quite common in most of the big cities (I’ve been to the one in Manchester quite a bit, that’s been running since the 80s) you get to drink gluhwein, eat schnitzel, but wooden toys and get a bit cold and underwhelmed in the process.
minus-squareZ3k3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoEdinburgh has a regular Christmas Market. Not a German in sight. Although I will admit it is superbly underwhelming. Never seen the personally in Glasgow but I’m not there as often as Edinburgh
They’re quite common in most of the big cities (I’ve been to the one in Manchester quite a bit, that’s been running since the 80s) you get to drink gluhwein, eat schnitzel, but wooden toys and get a bit cold and underwhelmed in the process.
Edinburgh has a regular Christmas Market. Not a German in sight.
Although I will admit it is superbly underwhelming.
Never seen the personally in Glasgow but I’m not there as often as Edinburgh