December Travel News
Hi from Rick: The Gift of Travel
December is when I wear my red scarf and recall seeing my breath between sips of hot spiced wine from an old-fashioned mug at Nürnberg's much-loved Christmas market.
It was here that I realized why so many people go reindeer-crazy for Germany's holiday markets. All around me, a happy crowd of revelers and wonderstruck children sampling fresh gingerbread roamed a festive scene of roving brass quintets, sausages sizzling on the grill, and a world of artfully hand-crafted traditional little treasures: whirling candle chimes, carved and gaily painted nutcrackers eager to chomp on anything with a shell, and folk dolls with dried-apple faces… Read more
