Girls in Cologne: Köln Christmas Markets

Hello!

In Köln it is already feeling like Christmas, thanks to the Christmas Markets!
In Köln there are 7 Christmas Markets around the city and they all opened on 24.11., month before Christmas Eve.
Every Christmas Market has its own theme and they are open every day!
Every market has lots of stands which are selling Glühwein, Bratwurst, fried almonds and other nuts. Then according to the theme there are lots of different gifts and small items you can buy :)

In my (Maiju) opinion Christmas Markets are nice and the decorations are really beautiful, but there is really not that much to buy. Or there is, but nothing I would like to buy. My mom would say that the markets are full of krääsä :D Small decorative items, Schneekugeln= snow globe, candle holders etc. Beautiful, but nothing you would really need. So sorry guys but no gifts from the Christmas Markets! The only thing I am planning to buy are those almonds and maybe some chocolate! :)

I (Jenna) on the other hand LOVE the Christmas Markets and could spend a whole day just walking around and admiring the beautiful stuff there :) I wanna buy everything, the things are so pretty <3 I wish we had Christmas Markets in Finland too!

We have visited almost every Christmas Markets here in Köln and also one in Aachen (but we probably will make a separate post about that).

Actually, there is a Christmas Market right next to our place! We can see and hear it every evening from our window :D It is of course the gay-lesbian market! Btw Conchita Wurst was performing there yesterday! We don't even need to go out to see the show because we can see the stage from inside :D You can see from everything that it is not a "normal" Christmas Market. The decorations are quite outrageous and full of glitter and everything :D Also they sell there all kinds of stuff..... haha you can only imagine!