Markets

Awoke early and headed out to see the town. Very cold now...walked to the Cathedral - huge building, quite a magnificent landmark. We found a lovely bread/cake shop and bought something for breakfast - we had planned to sit outside the Cathedral, however we found all the seats iced up! We just stood around and ate our buns and drank some coffee to warm ourselves up.

After looking around the shops - we headed to the markets which were next to the Cathedral. Lots of wooden stalls were set up around in the square. All the stalls were filled with christmas goodies - food or handcrafts. We tried the bratwurst sausages, the potato cakes with apple sauce (yum) gluhwein ( which was berries and wine and spices cooked up in vat) yummy, quite sweet and very warming - especially useful for warming hands up. Gluhwein is sold in special mugs which can be kept as souveniers or returned for a refund.

fer it started to get too cold - some of the others found a bar (brewery) where we could have a drink & something to eat and warm ourselves up....Unfortunately there is no rule about not smoking in bars in Germany and we soon found the smokey atmosphere a bit much to cope with...so we moved on.