The season I like the most

The begining of the winter is over....people slowly now get used to the real winter....All shops, buildings, streets are decorated with colorful lights. These lighs make the winter evening and whole city to glow. Its very nice to take a walk around the city. In every office and reception christmas decorations are show cased bringing in the mood of party and holidays. The most awaited christmas markets are opened all over europe and every city will attract tourist with all the decorations like fairy tale.The aroma from Gluhwine/Mulled wine (wine boiled with spices), hot beer, ginger bread, different candies (sugar coated almonds, cashews, etc), many different sausage, best nuremberger sausage with mustard (my favorite is fire wurst), steaks, chocolate coated fruits, potato pancakes (eaten with apple sauce) or apple+cinnamon pancakes, crepes, waffles, hungarian langos (my favourite traditonal version is with garlic oil or garlic sauce with cheese topping), fries with ketch up or mayo, flammkuchen, different strudel (my apple strudel), kasespatzle, potato noodles (schupfnudeln) with sauerkraut, maultaschen, yummy curry wurst, roasted chest nuts (its not a pleasure if you bite into one bad one), dampfnudeln, hot chocolates, kinderpunsch,schaumkuss, stollen,colorful candys, marzipan fill the air...well now this is my problem...i wanted to eat all of them before the christmas market closes...and Huh....i wanted to visit as much christmas markers as I can and try different version of all these in those christmas markets😋😋😋😋😍 Crazy me for the christmas markets.. you could see me walking excited around the christmas markets with delightful eyes like a child in heavy winter clothes (funny are my loose hat) gazing at food stalls, enjoying the aroma of the food and all light decorations even though I freeze in cold weather. Yes.... Life is beautiful here in December !! 

This time the foods in christmas markets were quiet expensive.. i have to rebell with my mind and tongue to buy the expensive food or not..ofcourse the another big problem is calories.. eating all heavy stuffs I struggle to keep up my weight in winter 😁 Sometimes it is confusing whether to try the new food which I havent tried or stick back to the very tasty food I tried last time. For instance, the apple, cinnamon and sugar pancake I tried last week was so delicious and again I got the same pancake though I wanted to spend money to try a new food that I havn't tried..unfortunately I received a burnt pancake 😩. Most of the foods are available only during this christmas season in christmas markets...

People are happy to visit the christmas markets and enter into one of the food stall so that they dont have to cook a meal at home... Here people like to visit christmas markets with colleagues, friends and with family. Every where people have good mood, awaiting for holidays and partys. The shops are filled with people hunting for christmas gifts. Christmas cookies, chocaltes, lebenkuchen fill the supermarkets. Suddely people tend to be soft and happiness is spread in this season. The stalls for local handmade goods, christmas decorations, dolls, candles, soaps, coffee mugs, leather made stuffs add cuteness to the christmas markets. 

Now and then it will snow... i look eagerly every year for white christmas.. I will miss this season very much if I go away from here...every year this season here adds joy into my life...Long live the christmas markets in europe 😃

Praha-I am waiting to come to you again !!

One of the few cities which I wanted to visit before I move out of Europe (incase I have to move) is Prague (Praha/Prag-capital of czech repulic). Here comes my journey....There was a traffic jam and the flix bus reached Praha in the mid night. I was hungry, worried that everything will be closed and nothing will be available to eat. But the city didn't sleep...many restuarants, shops, pubs were left open-perfect for nightlife. Lot of hunger..found a small resturant with reasonable price..and had the first taste of Praha at midnight 😋

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The moment I landed in Praha I decided-I eat all the delicacies in czech in these two days as much as possible. 

The city looked adorable in night with happy tourist enjoying thier vacation. The next morning it was raining and I started to explore the city in rain. Too much people on charles bridge.. the bridge was so full that we could only see the umbrellas in all directions we move on the bridge. Inspite of rain and crowd, I enjoyed the walk in the old city.. it was pleasant to explore. One thing I liked about Praha- All main attractions can be reached by walk and can be seen in two days. One day to the places in one side of the charles bridge (old town square, jewish quarter,Wenceslas square,etc) and other day to the top of the castle, St.vitus cathedral, all attractions in that area. Praha is not cheap..it is equally expensive like other cities in europe. I had difficultiy in finding the boarding point for flix bus to return back. 

There are some amazing looking candys in caption candy shops in praha. 

I admired the architecture, old buildings, sunset during walk in the bridge, candid people, ride in local bus or tram, night life, happy tourist-this made me to feel I should visit the city again, especially during christmas. I managed to see the John Lennon wall before I leave the city. 

 I took the below cute pencils for my bhuiji...hope she will like it.