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This German production of Christmas Carol is particularly interesting because they're staging it after Christmas, naming the adapter (translator?), and taking the 'carol' part seriously by including a significant musical element?
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Art Nouveau Walking Tour, Part II:
We did a lot of walking around to see Art Nouveau buildings in the rain, getting increasingly damp and annoyed. Worth it for architecture, but only just.
Villa Stuck, a grand Jugendstil house that now houses dull-seeming photography exhibitions:
It looked like the interiors had been stripped to the bone, so I didn't care to see the devastation beyond the lobby.
Munich is HUGE on these big metal-work roof domes (though nothing can be taller than the main church's twin onions). Why weren't they prohibitively expensive to install? How are they maintaining them all? What sort of maintenance do they require, though? They're on just normal residential buildings there on the left, three in one shot!
Ismaninger Str. 98, above an old tobacco store. At the nearby Cafe Wiener, I got a Cafe Brauner. I like Vienna's whole idiosyncratic range of coffee options, and I rarely see them outside the city.
I don't know why the Mansard Roof is such a shit-looking attic conversion option in London. Central Europe has a million ways of doing that, many of which look boss. Do we just not know how to do this right?
I like this plasterwork:
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Neuhauser Strasse:
At Neuhauser Strasse (which had a pleasing skating rink, leading in), I had a Munich Bratwurst. This was nice, but very recognisably the same kind of sausage you'd get in the UK rather than a typical Bratwurst. Katy prefers that style (it's what she grew up with), but I lean more towards the classic wurst (closer to what I grew up with: Missouri was extensively settled by Germans due to having a climate similar to the Rhineland in places, with similar grape-growing conditions (thus our wineries)).
A good lebkuchen stand. We got orange and a traditional nut-top, both of which are soft, with a curious communion-wafer sort of bottom, and well-flavoured. Lebkuchen like this seem to be around €3.50 everywhere in the city, even in grocery stores--steep, if you ask me.
This honey chestnut poof from the same place has a waffle base and a soft cream centre. It's way nicer than it looks, with a subtle flavour. Big enough to split, and moreish.
Also, there were great, elaborate Christmas windows at this department store.
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Marienplatz (Part II):
This wood-carving set-up was very clever, with an extractor fan sucking up saw dust at the source.
Fresh Rahm-Schmankerl baked on-site. Soft, hot rye bread with cheese, speck and green onions. This is good as hell. Note the strong decoration of most stalls.
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This is what I mean when I say the UK absolutely doesn't do this type of market. We completely ignore our national Christmas specialties, the crowd flow is abysmal, we don't serve house-made good quality food or crafts. Vienna like, *banned* anything not hand-made.
By the by, as you'll notice throughout, hats seem way more common in Bavaria than in the UK? Especially for men. This wasn't just workers in stalls, I'm talking completely random dudes in the suburbs too.
One strip of the Christmas Market between Marienplatz and Lion's Tower was huge on nativity scenes, with 10+ stalls dedicated to providing you with such essentials as: entire set of small carpentry tools, so Joseph can labour while Mary does the same. Miniature pretzel. Hedgehog witnesses to the birth of Christ.
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At the end of the day, we went grocery shopping.
Even near the Austrian border, Mozart balls are so expensive!
Even in Munich the 99 cent Arizona teas did not desert me; America culture is this tea, that is its apex.
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This German production of Christmas Carol is particularly interesting because they're staging it after Christmas, naming the adapter (translator?), and taking the 'carol' part seriously by including a significant musical element?
***
Art Nouveau Walking Tour, Part II:
We did a lot of walking around to see Art Nouveau buildings in the rain, getting increasingly damp and annoyed. Worth it for architecture, but only just.
Villa Stuck, a grand Jugendstil house that now houses dull-seeming photography exhibitions:
It looked like the interiors had been stripped to the bone, so I didn't care to see the devastation beyond the lobby.
Munich is HUGE on these big metal-work roof domes (though nothing can be taller than the main church's twin onions). Why weren't they prohibitively expensive to install? How are they maintaining them all? What sort of maintenance do they require, though? They're on just normal residential buildings there on the left, three in one shot!
Ismaninger Str. 98, above an old tobacco store. At the nearby Cafe Wiener, I got a Cafe Brauner. I like Vienna's whole idiosyncratic range of coffee options, and I rarely see them outside the city.
I don't know why the Mansard Roof is such a shit-looking attic conversion option in London. Central Europe has a million ways of doing that, many of which look boss. Do we just not know how to do this right?
I like this plasterwork:
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Neuhauser Strasse:
At Neuhauser Strasse (which had a pleasing skating rink, leading in), I had a Munich Bratwurst. This was nice, but very recognisably the same kind of sausage you'd get in the UK rather than a typical Bratwurst. Katy prefers that style (it's what she grew up with), but I lean more towards the classic wurst (closer to what I grew up with: Missouri was extensively settled by Germans due to having a climate similar to the Rhineland in places, with similar grape-growing conditions (thus our wineries)).
A good lebkuchen stand. We got orange and a traditional nut-top, both of which are soft, with a curious communion-wafer sort of bottom, and well-flavoured. Lebkuchen like this seem to be around €3.50 everywhere in the city, even in grocery stores--steep, if you ask me.
This honey chestnut poof from the same place has a waffle base and a soft cream centre. It's way nicer than it looks, with a subtle flavour. Big enough to split, and moreish.
Also, there were great, elaborate Christmas windows at this department store.
***
Marienplatz (Part II):
This wood-carving set-up was very clever, with an extractor fan sucking up saw dust at the source.
Fresh Rahm-Schmankerl baked on-site. Soft, hot rye bread with cheese, speck and green onions. This is good as hell. Note the strong decoration of most stalls.
----
This is what I mean when I say the UK absolutely doesn't do this type of market. We completely ignore our national Christmas specialties, the crowd flow is abysmal, we don't serve house-made good quality food or crafts. Vienna like, *banned* anything not hand-made.
By the by, as you'll notice throughout, hats seem way more common in Bavaria than in the UK? Especially for men. This wasn't just workers in stalls, I'm talking completely random dudes in the suburbs too.
One strip of the Christmas Market between Marienplatz and Lion's Tower was huge on nativity scenes, with 10+ stalls dedicated to providing you with such essentials as: entire set of small carpentry tools, so Joseph can labour while Mary does the same. Miniature pretzel. Hedgehog witnesses to the birth of Christ.
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At the end of the day, we went grocery shopping.
Even near the Austrian border, Mozart balls are so expensive!
Even in Munich the 99 cent Arizona teas did not desert me; America culture is this tea, that is its apex.
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Date: 2022-12-04 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2022-12-04 10:57 pm (UTC)I got so excited when we started having christmas markets in the UK, but they've always seemed underwhelming compared to the continental versions. Good to know it's not just me!
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Date: 2022-12-06 09:46 pm (UTC)Also I wish the UK didn't think it did Halloween still, bc that just makes it confusing when you try to explain it's an actual, major holiday in the US that is celebrated on a VERY different scale (i.e.: well).