Brummies Christmas Market

After residing in England for more than a year now, I got the chance to witnessed winter for the second time. The best part is of course, snow falls and sale, but the worst part of it are the climate is freezing and snow made EVERYTHING slow and delayed. For an example, the train! I rely on my London-Midlands train everyday to go do errands and stuff but yeah, snow made me an hour late.

Anyway, one thing about Christmas that everyone loved is the Christmas market. In London, there is a Winter Wonderland but good ol' Brummies doesn't want to miss having one as well. In Birmingham, it is called Birmingham- Frankfurt Christmas Market. It is not as massive and exclusive like the ones in Hyde Park, but for me, this will do. 


You see, Christmas Market in Britain started long ago since the Victorian era which  sells Christmas related products and foodstuffs, but during that time, they were not known as Christmas market. The traditional Christmas market you could find are in Germany, Austria and Poland, but the ones in England can be considered quite similar to the traditional ones but of course, with some English identity.


Like I stated above, the one in Birmingham is called Birmingham-Frankfurt Christmas Market. It is open daily from 18th of November to 23rd December from 10 am - 9pm, it can be said that this Christmas Market is the largest authentic German market outside of Germany and Austria and is arguably one of the most popular Christmas markets in the UK. Chewah.

This is my second time here and I enjoyed every seconds of it eating fried cheese and jalapeno dip with cranberry sauce and the soft yummy garlic and cheese bun! Not forgetting their scrumptious hot chocolate as well. Without rums of course. There are other delicious meals that visitors could enjoy such as the Gluhwein (German mulled wine), German beers and traditional sausages, meats, sweets, marzipans and pastries.

Fried cheese!

 Pretzel!

 Chocolate coated banana and mashmallow

Colourful cookies

They don't just offer food, but also traditional handcrafted gifts, including jewellery, wooden toys, dolls and candles. It is so cute how they set up wooden chalets as their stalls and each chalets will be decorated as how they like, the more colourful lights, the better! It is best to see all of these decorations at night because the colourful lights will lit up the whole Christmas market as if we are in a village!

And, the whole experience will be enhanced with live music every lunchtime and evening from a traditional bandstand. Bliss!

One of the things that I will SURELY miss when I go home!