Let the Christmas markets begin...

It's open season for the Weihnachtsmärkte and the mulled wine and the bratwursts and the little wooden thingies that spin when you light candles underneath their fans. We only saw one Santa, and he was speaking English.

Christmas Market at Alexanderplatz, with the Rotes Rathaus (city hall - note the flag with bear), the massive ferris wheel and more massive spinny wooden thing, and, the tree and what R has now termed the BCD, big communist discoball.







I'm going to the old-fashioned one in Spandau tomorrow evening!

and p.s., for those of you who like a good chocolate-filled Advent Calendar, this country is the land of plenty. I have never seen anything like it, over our Thanksgiving weekend! Lindt chocolate "his & hers"?! Crazy!