Scenes from Gendarmenmarkt

I wasn’t around for Christmas last year, and so had to experience Berlin’s greatest December attraction–the numerous and varied Weihnachtsmärkte (Christmas markets)–in their slightly depressing, Christmas-cheer-is-over-and-January’s-only-just-begun, post-New Year’s form. That means, of course, that this year I am experiencing them as if for the first time, delighting in the gaiety, the star-shaped lights, and the [...]

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