We're Off...

Bags: packed
Paperwork: hopefully in order

So this is the great big Christmas Market Trip, which we going to originally do in 2022,in Bavaria. I really wanted to see the market in Dresden, as it's the oldest, but it was too much of an outlier in those plans. If you followed our last trip, well, you'll known Christmas markets didn't happen because in 2021, they canceled them all at the last minute. We moved Bavaria to the late summer.

But I was persistent, we were going to see what these Christmas Markets were really all about, and on our second attempt, I centered the trip on Dresden, where the main market will be celebrating its 590th anniversary. That led to a lot of new research, and the decision to focus our trip on Saxony, because in terms of German Christmas traditions, this is THE place to be, and most of the trip will be here except for a detour into the state of Thuringia to visit Erfurt and the Wartburg. Besides that: Leipzig, Dresden, Görlitz, Bautzen, Meissen, Freiberg, Saxon Switzerland and Königstein Castle, then the Erzgebirge-- from what I've been told by the smart folks on the Germany forum on Trip Advisor, is the home of German Christmas. Okay, one of them is from Dresden and has some bias towards his state, but the rest of them are from western Germany so...Read more