Recently, every village and town organises a Christmas market. We also have one here in Dendermonde, but it's more like the usual market on Mondays than a real Christmas market. If you want to see something nice and original, you have to go to the big cities.
Of course, the major Christmas markets are in Germany. Go to Cologne or Berlin, or Aachen, Düsseldorf, for instance. Or to Strassbourg or Colmar in France (which are in a region that used to belong to Germany). Also in some of the Baltic countries you find fine Christmas markets, like in Riga and Talinn.
But also here in Belgium the tradition is picking up and the major cities like Antwerp, Bruges and Brussels make a lot of efforts to have a splendid Christmas market. We intend to go to Brussels just before Christmas and see for ourselves.
I do like the atmosphere around Christmas. It gives a cozy feeling, all those little lights and decorated shop windows. At home we'll be putting up the decoration next Sunday as well.
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