Ideas for Advent and Christmas time
Advent doesn't have to be stressful. On the contrary! We have collected tips for connoisseurs for the pre-Christmas period. Make these weeks a part of the year to look forward to. Enjoy the stillness as the mists shroud the land. That awakens the creativity in us. Let yourself be infected by the scent of cookies that wafts out of the neighbors' windows. collect Recipes for the Christmas cookies that you make yourself. Put together your Christmas menu. Then stroll through Christmas markets and try the winter drinks that are currently popular. We have collected ideas on how you can enjoy the weeks before Christmas. Maybe there is something there that you can use to prepare for the most wonderful time of the year.
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Tips for the Christmas Season
There are many ways you can turn the pre-Christmas season into a special experience for connoisseurs. We have put together some tips and present them here.
Visit Christmas markets in 2024
There is hardly any other place where you can get into the Christmas spirit more than at Christmas markets. But not all of them are the same. There are often big differences between Advent markets. If one is more traditional, the next may specialize in a particular theme. There are Christmas markets where customs play a big role. Others concentrate on the Christmas theme of a particular country. Still others are more avant-garde. There are many variations. We present some examples here that you can visit in the run-up to Christmas.
New Recipes for Advent
You can enjoy the pre-Christmas period during the hours that you spend with preparing your feast. We like to be in our kitchen on gray December days and bake or cook together. This is a very special kind of fun for us. Since we travel a lot, time is usually tight to cook ourselves. Thus we enjoy this time a lot, when we collect recipes and choose what we prepare for the days before and between the holidays. In our articles we introduce you to some of these recipes.
Gift ideas for slow travelers and connoisseurs
You probably know this too. Every year in the run-up to Christmas we think about what to give our loved ones. It's often not that easy. Lists of gift ideas can help here. We've collected ideas for travelers, hikers, campers and RV fans, cooking and baking fans. There's also a general list of gift ideas that might help you with your search.
Experience European Christmas Customs before and after Christmas
Advent is also a time when many regions reflect on traditional customs. Many of these customs are very old. Some even go back to pre-Christian times. It is exciting to see how much some customs even differ from region to region. In the weeks leading up to Christmas in the Alps, St. Nicholas, often accompanied by terrifying Krampuses, make their way through the valleys. The custom of the Perchten goes back to pre-Christian times. These drive out the winter. However, they can only be seen on the rough nights after Christmas. There are also different “versions” among them. The terrifying wooden masks of many Perchten are supposed to drive away the winter. The Schönperchten, on the other hand, ring in spring. Therefore, these suggestions not only extend to the pre-Christmas period, but also the rough nights and the time after the turn of the year.
Christmas tips from travel bloggers
- Alexandra recommends that Christmas market in Oslo
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Source Tips for the pre-Christmas period: own research
Text: © Copyright Monika Fuchs, TravelWorldOnline
Photos: © Copyright Monika Fuchs, TravelWorldOnline and Azlin Bloor, Lin's Food