3-Advent-Market Tour
Gift: €16
Pretzel: €1.90
Christmas Spirit: Abundant.
So...in the face of two small essays (or Aufsätze) to write for German, what do I do? Sit at home and write them? Nope, I sleep in and then go to Christmas Markets!
First I went to the Museums Quarter to check my e-mail (I saw Mel there....how weird is that?) and was there for quite a while longer than I had anticipated. Afterwards I noticed signs pointing into the building and saying "Weihnachtsmarkt"....my interest thoroughly piqued, I went inside. Sure enough, it was a Christmas Market, but not in the traditional sense AT ALL......it was in the MQ, so it had to be post-modern objet d'arte of a sort of festive leaning, but mostly just expensive for the sake of being expensive....there were some absolutely GORGEOUS things, though....these fantastic lamps, and lots of teapots and Japanese tea sets, and all sorts of little cute objet......oh it was fun! There were so many people in a relatively small space, which wasn't as much fun.....but I'm so glad that I stumbled into it! Afterwards I headed off to the Rathaus on foot, since it's not too far away. My main objective there was to take pictures, which I did in abundance.....it's so awesome there, and it's unfortunate that I can't really get a shot that incorporates the grandness and sprawl of the stalls in the markets.....but they're just fantastic. After looking at all of the pretty stuff I caught the U2 back to Karlsplatz and took the U4 to Schönbrunn Palace to check out the Christmas market there.....
Schönbrunn is a fantastic place, and in the big square they set up a really great Christmas Market....there's a little stage (which was unfortunately occupied with a choir of old men who attempted to sing christmas carols.....it was OK if you weren't too close to the stage, or any of the central Punsch stalls, which for some reason were piping in the treacle emanating from the stage into speakers.....after a while I thought I wasn't going to escape it at all.....) a HUGE tree, and tons of stalls selling similar stuff than that in the Rathaus, but a little more organized and a little nicer overall. I only got one thing, which I think I'll gift to someone upon my return. (that's all I'll say, in case this person is reading my blog) After this, the third and last of today's Christmas Markets, I returned home and slowly but surely wrote both Aufsätze while watching a hilarious anime called "Candidate for Goddess" (which looked suspiciously like Xenosaga, BTW....) I then went up and watched South Park and ate lasagna with Becky. Good times!
Pretzel: €1.90
Christmas Spirit: Abundant.
So...in the face of two small essays (or Aufsätze) to write for German, what do I do? Sit at home and write them? Nope, I sleep in and then go to Christmas Markets!
First I went to the Museums Quarter to check my e-mail (I saw Mel there....how weird is that?) and was there for quite a while longer than I had anticipated. Afterwards I noticed signs pointing into the building and saying "Weihnachtsmarkt"....my interest thoroughly piqued, I went inside. Sure enough, it was a Christmas Market, but not in the traditional sense AT ALL......it was in the MQ, so it had to be post-modern objet d'arte of a sort of festive leaning, but mostly just expensive for the sake of being expensive....there were some absolutely GORGEOUS things, though....these fantastic lamps, and lots of teapots and Japanese tea sets, and all sorts of little cute objet......oh it was fun! There were so many people in a relatively small space, which wasn't as much fun.....but I'm so glad that I stumbled into it! Afterwards I headed off to the Rathaus on foot, since it's not too far away. My main objective there was to take pictures, which I did in abundance.....it's so awesome there, and it's unfortunate that I can't really get a shot that incorporates the grandness and sprawl of the stalls in the markets.....but they're just fantastic. After looking at all of the pretty stuff I caught the U2 back to Karlsplatz and took the U4 to Schönbrunn Palace to check out the Christmas market there.....
Schönbrunn is a fantastic place, and in the big square they set up a really great Christmas Market....there's a little stage (which was unfortunately occupied with a choir of old men who attempted to sing christmas carols.....it was OK if you weren't too close to the stage, or any of the central Punsch stalls, which for some reason were piping in the treacle emanating from the stage into speakers.....after a while I thought I wasn't going to escape it at all.....) a HUGE tree, and tons of stalls selling similar stuff than that in the Rathaus, but a little more organized and a little nicer overall. I only got one thing, which I think I'll gift to someone upon my return. (that's all I'll say, in case this person is reading my blog) After this, the third and last of today's Christmas Markets, I returned home and slowly but surely wrote both Aufsätze while watching a hilarious anime called "Candidate for Goddess" (which looked suspiciously like Xenosaga, BTW....) I then went up and watched South Park and ate lasagna with Becky. Good times!
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