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For me, there are four enormously persuasivereasons why Christmas market shopping is simply the most satisfyingholiday option during the run-up to the festive season.Firstly, I want to speed through my shopping for Christmas giftswith ease and originality and there's nowhere better to do so than ata Christmas market in a beautiful city, where the combination ofmodernity and tradition can supply all I could possibly want. Berlin Christmas Marketis huge and varied, selling art, toys and sophisticated gifts as wellas the usual Christmas market trinkets, decorations and treats, Zurich boasts the largest indoor Christmas Market, Brussels has a Christmas Market chalet village and Colognehas several different ones, but besides offering Christmas marketgoodies galore, these cities also have fabulous arrays of departmentstores and designer shops.Secondly, I've always wished I could enjoy choosing and buyingChristmas gifts for my favourite people instead of descending rapidlyinto a state of stress-induced resentment and unseasonal gloom as Itrawl the same old shops for unique, affordable items in vain and themerry Christmas market holiday solves this problem, too, since some ofthe most satisfyingly nostalgic and regionally specific Christmasmarket delights are to be found where currency differences yield greatvalue. Oslo, Budapest, Krakow, Riga, Prague and Tallinn are great examples.Thirdly, what is Christmas all about if not food? I'm quite sureI've never gone longer than ten minutes without eating or drinkingsomething heavenly whilst wandering the aisles of a Christmas market,and the seasonal specialties vary depending on where you are, so eachone has afflicted me with a new addiction. Bad Reichenhall Christmas Market is operated by the Reber chocolate company, one whole Christmas market out of Edinburgh's myriad is dedicated solely to food, Ballyvaughan's Christmas market sells both Irish and German delicacies and in Vienna, the strudel just refuses to vacate your line of vision.Lastly, but most importantly, it's the festive atmosphere of eachdifferent Christmas market that makes me want to up and leave dismal,tendentially snowless London as soon as they put the commerciallysponsored lights up. As a little girl, I used to gaze in wonder at thesparkling Dickensian Christmas market street scenes on television, sighas I stencilled fake snowflakes onto the windows and peep from thewindow on Christmas morning at a distinctly brownish-grey garden, butso much Christmas market action occurs in towns where they have realsnow or romantic medieval architecture that, now I'm a grownup, I canlive my festive fairytale every year if I choose. You'd have to be veryunlucky not to see snow at a Christmas market in Helsinki or Turku, and Baden-Baden, Nuremberg, Mulhouse, Strasbourg, Innsbruck and Salzburg will live up to anyone's picturesque Christmas market dreams. A bright carousel, a colossal, sparkling Christmas tree in themiddle of the market square, carol singers and a hundred perfectsnowflakes on my mittens... it doesn't get any better.
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