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Pavilionaire

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Uncle Buck said:
Remember going to Nuremberg a few years back. Basically feet did not touch the ground. Retreated to a bar in the city walls, far nicer way to spend the evening.
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I've heard mixed reports. Square absolutely packed, the bloke on the tannoy seemed angry but a cracking light show.
 
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Gazwag

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Swegulls said:
I'm off to Prague with the family in early December, surely Christmas markets on the agenda! I just have to lose 7Ibs in November first ... really bad timing, all hard work down the drain I guess :drink:
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We are too, not been before, but the Christmas Markets are one of the best apparently and of coarse its really cheap there. Going to keep my eye out for a Dukla away shirt and Sparta are home so going to try and get tickets
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

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Swegulls said:
I'm off to Prague with the family in early December, surely Christmas markets on the agenda! I just have to lose 7Ibs in November first ... really bad timing, all hard work down the drain I guess :drink:
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Don't make the mistake I made. Searched in vain for Wenceslas Square. Failed. Spotted Tourist Information office..

- "Excuse me please, I'm trying to find Wenceslas Square"

- "You're standing in it sir"

In my pitiful defence, it wasn't square :blush:
 


Chicken Run

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nickbrighton said:
Christmas markets sound like a good idea . Lots of stalls selling bespoke Christmas items, homemade food, Christmas choirs, snow gently falling but in reality they are simply (in my experience anyway) overpriced, miserable ,cold, very little on sale that isnt available much cheaper elsewhere, wet, cold, usually muddy, and mass produced plastic food, and crap fizzy beer, and have i mentioned wet , cold and muddy?
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If you want crowded spaces, full of tossers and groin goblins barging round all looking at cheap shitty christmas bollox then look no further than Asda at Hollingbury this Christmas, if you want some authentic cold air head to the freezer aisle where many overweight ignorant tossers leave the freezer doors open 👍
 






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Chicken Run said:
If you want crowded spaces, full of tossers and groin goblins barging round all looking at cheap shitty christmas bollox then look no further than Asda at Hollingbury this Christmas, if you want some authentic cold air head to the freezer aisle where many overweight ignorant tossers leave the freezer doors open 👍
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Oi! I shop at ASDA Hollingbury!


Yeah, fair comment.
 








Jackthelad

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It depends, if it's some corporate market with crap food and tat that you get in the city then no, but if it's one of those out in the sticks sussex ones where the food is great as is the booze and home made gifts then yes.
 


PILTDOWN MAN

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Go to Bruges every year for a long weekend with two of my mates. Off next week in fact 2 nights Bruges 1 night Ypres. Atmospheric, buy Antiques and drink beer. Taking the van this year.
 






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CheeseRolls said:
Enjoyed Krakow a lot and Dusseldorf was ok, but for the UK the only thing worse than a Christmas market is a Christmas/Santa/North Pole experience.
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I went to Dusseldorf this time last year, they were playing Schalke and fans mingled in the city centre Christmas markets with annoying lack of plastic chair luzzing. Only slightly overpriced but good fun. Not been to one in the UK yet.
 


Herr Tubthumper

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Uncle Buck said:
I will go to the one near the opera house on Unter der Linden. Has a decent bar in it, which is heated.
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This is the Gendarmenmarkt one which has temporarily moved . I just checked and they will have the champagne and oyster bar right next door to the pie and mash stall like last year. Perfect.
 


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timbha

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CheeseRolls said:
for the UK the only thing worse than a Christmas market is a Christmas/Santa/North Pole experience.
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Is that where the elves were smoking and the reindeers’ heads and bodies were some distance apart? Wasn’t it a “Mears” production of some sort with Santa’s Grotto a sea of mud?
 




South Stand Bonfire

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The Bruges one is ok as your other half and children can go skating or visit the tat stalls whilst you go and do some serious Belgium beer sampling from the surrounding bars.
 






Invicta

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European ones always been really enjoyable, Innsbruck this year. UK generally naff and Tacky !
 




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