Christmas markets have gone from being a German thing to being a far more European wide thing. The other weekend we were in France for opening weekend of the ski season, sadly skiing on day two was stopped by the weather (low cloud) and skiing by feel is no fun on day two when you have five months of the season and it is frankly not worth the risk.
Instead we headed to Annecy, a very beautiful town sitting on a lake surrounded by mountains and the largest town in Haute-Savoire. The lake has a cycle path all the way round it and a number of stages of Tour de France have started in the town and at least outside of the winter months we can drive to Annecy and I can cycle home over a couple of Cols. At this time of year whilst those roads are generally open as one of them goes to a ski resort it is too cold to do the ride.
On that Sunday not only did we have the Christmas market but the normal town market runs as well so plenty of things to look at and eat. It is of course traditional at these things to drink Vin Chaud and as we were in Haute-Savoire indulge in Diot de Savoire (known as a "Dio") sandwich, essentially an upmarket hot dog using a piece of baguette.
As is typical there is always plenty of other food to go around as well.
Christmas markets have found their way all across Europe even Malaga offers some form of Christmas market. We would have gone this year, but sadly the thirty days of rain we get on the Costa del Sol has decided to coincide with the part of December prior to Christmas and todays rain was particularly tropical in terms of ferocity so our trip to Malaga for said lights and market was postponed.
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