[News] Christmas Markets

[Pavilionaire]

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.

I've heard mixed reports. Square absolutely packed, the bloke on the tannoy seemed angry but a cracking light show.

 

[Gazwag]

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

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]

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

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

 

[Chicken Run]

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?

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

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Nice for an hour or so.

This is the correct opinion.

 

[Brovion]

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

Oi! I shop at ASDA Hollingbury!


Yeah, fair comment.

 

[bluenitsuj]

Same old miserable posters

 

[CheeseRolls]

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.

 

[Jackthelad]

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]

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.

 

[southstandandy]

Vienna a few years ago was great. Never been to a UK one as they always look a bit naff.

 

[SAC]

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.

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]

I will go to the one near the opera house on Unter der Linden. Has a decent bar in it, which is heated.

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.

 

[Anger]

I'd rather chew my left ( or indeed right ) testicle off than go to a Christmas market.

I will take you to one.

Your move.

 

[timbha]

for the UK the only thing worse than a Christmas market is a Christmas/Santa/North Pole experience.

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?

 

[Uncle Buck]

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.

That is the one.

Actually a better location, in my opinion

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

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.

 

[banjo]

Back to Ghent in December.

 

[Invicta]

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

 

[AmexRuislip]

Christmas at Blenheim Palace

Experience the magic of Christmas 2024 with a new light trail, decorated palace rooms, and a festive market at Blenheim Palace.

www.blenheimpalace.com

https://www.hrp.org.uk/hampton-court-palace/whats-on/hampton-court-palace-festive-fayre/#gs.hsym5u

Christmas at Waddesdon

tickets.waddesdon.org.uk

We're doing Hampton Court this year.