Off Topic The Wonderful, magical and exciting countdown to Christmas thread

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Christmas over here is fairly similar, I suppose. You obviously have loads of German markets (or Christmas markets as they're called here) and they drink lots of Glühwein. But you get the presents on Christmas Eve, and the Christmas songs are even more awful.

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Went to Koln just before crimbo a few years ago and it was one of the coldest trips I've ever been on. Nice city tho
 
Went to Koln just before crimbo a few years ago and it was one of the coldest trips I've ever been on. Nice city tho

Cologne's just down the road (well, motorway) from here. Only saw a bit of the Christmas market, but it seemed nice. The Dom (cathedral) is impressive.

Germany's gay capital btw <ok>
 
Cologne (and Düsseldorf) are also worth visiting in February for the carnival (Karnival), where basically the entire town has a costume party and gets drunk. It's great in a so-bad-it's-good sort of way, ish. But we get the day off work!

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Christmas over here is fairly similar, I suppose. You obviously have loads of German markets (or Christmas markets as they're called here) and they drink lots of Glühwein. But you get the presents on Christmas Eve, and the Christmas songs are even more awful.

[video=youtube;hThhLoP69gM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hThhLoP69gM[/video]

Oh, I dunno....
Better than listening to George Bloody Michael and "Last Christmas" over and over.
 
Cologne's just down the road (well, motorway) from here. Only saw a bit of the Christmas market, but it seemed nice. The Dom (cathedral) is impressive.

Germany's gay capital btw <ok>

Good job I'd packed my leather jeans and string vest then.

I went up the cathedral... good view from the top.

The speed you can do in cars over there I'm sure it's about 15 minutes away
 
Good job I'd packed my leather jeans and string vest then.

I went up the cathedral... good view from the top.

The speed you can do in cars over there I'm sure it's about 15 minutes away

Not if you're stuck in a jam (Stau for RHC).

P.S. Düsseldorf is nicer than Cologne (Köln), albeit there's nothing as impressive as the Dom.