Cologne Christmas Market

For our first trip we decided to visit the Christmas Markets in Cologne, Germany. The city of Cologne offers six Christmas Markets in total. These Christmas Markets are stunning and a part of the Germans everyday life in December.

There are four big markets, one located at the Cologne Cathedral and another just outside our accommodation …

Rhineland

We headed off to Germany with the Rhine River at its lowest level in decades. A few days before our trip we got word about the river conditions and reviewed our options. River traffic will not be able to make it all the way up or down the river, so at the very least, we will need to change ships at some point. Deciding to go for …

The moment you set foot at the Cologne's central station, 'Hauptbahnhof' as it's called in Deutsch you are engulfed by this massive looking structure called the Cologne Cathedral. The more you see it, the more in awe you are. This Cathedral, built in the 13th century is one of the most exquisite works of Gothic architecture and boasts of having the …

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... , they had huge Christmas trees all over the place and each tree had lights on it as well. At the entrance to the Christmas Market stood a twenty foot tall Santa Clause...the biggest one I have ever seen! As we entered the Market, there was an old ...

... we confusedly manage to take the train to Cologne, then a taxi to our hotel, in the process getting our first glimpse of a Christmas market – which indeed looks very magical and Chrismassy. Excited, we rush back out our hotel, but we are too late, ...

... wow that is one impressive building, I can’t wait to come back and see it during the day, 2) the lights of the Christmas Market and 3) the sleet/snow blowing stuff that stung your face like a million stinging bees. Welcome to Germany! We did spend ...

... but what the heck, we are in Germany and it’s snowing, let’s have some fun already people. We wandered through the Christmas market for the last time as the vendors were packing up shop, as today was the last day for this season. We said ...

... and the Chocolate museum. The markets are named the Elf Market, the Angel Market, the Dom (Cathedral) market and the Schokalde Christmas market. The cruise ends Wednesday after which we will spend 2 days in Amsterdam. Getting in the Christmas spirit ...

... a tear - it was so hard! London, I will be back!!! Three hours later, we had landed in Cologne, where is famous for its traditional German Christmas market. Let the festival begins! Our hotel is a good value five stars. We visited two markets which are ...

... sure the market isn't hiding inside.   Nothing. Clearly our quest has been foiled as there is no seventh Christmas market and definitely no Seventh Christmas mug. Depressed, rejected and perhaps a tad bit drunk, we decide to comfort ...

... an appearance during Cologne's Wine Week. This was an outside event with various wine vendors. It had a similar appearance to a German Christmas market, but on a smaller scale. I had a good laugh as I discovered just how frisky wine makes Germans. There ...

... clothes shops. Also we got told off by an old woman for sitting on the steps of the Cathedral. We ate a German sausage in a Christmas market & bought trans-siberian handbook. Got 9 hours to kill before our train to Poland. Knackered now! ...

For Christmas lovers, there are couples of great christmas market to see surrounding belgium: - Koln alias Cologne in Germany - Aachen in Germany - Strasbourg in France - Lille in France - Brussels We went to Cologne, and were quite surprise by ...