{"id":37,"date":"2007-04-18T23:56:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T13:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2007-04-18T23:56:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T13:56:22","slug":"christmas-in-europe-heidelberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/christmas-in-europe-2006\/christmas-in-europe-heidelberg","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Europe &#8211; Heidelberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>By the time we reached Heidelberg, it was dark and we were all cold and tired.\u00a0 How wonderful it would be once we were back in the\u00a0warmth of our hotel room.\u00a0 \u00a0Well! thoughts of warm comfort soon got dashed as\u00a0were deposited at the Heidelberg markets.\u00a0 As we stepped off the coach, the cold air gripped us &#8211;\u00a0it was minus <span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">1\u00baC. <\/span>Do I really want to visit this market, I thought?\u00a0 However,\u00a0 once we got to the stalls\u00a0and the realization of how\u00a0huge this market was, I began to feel happier.\u00a0 There were all kinds of stalls selling confectionary, hot food, gifts, etc.. and it was so colorful.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t resist buying some freshly made biscuits and the speciality &#8216;<em>adventsangebot<\/em>&#8216;, a very dense fruitloaf which weighed a tonne.\u00a0 This lasted us for a whole week!<\/p>\n<p>It was great walking around, soaking in the atmosphere and\u00a0taking lots of snaps.\u00a0\u00a0A group of high-spirited university students, decked with reindeer\u00a0horns, spontaneously sang Christmas carols as people strolled past.\u00a0 They kindly posed for a photoshoot for me .. see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/ChristmasinEurope\/Heidelberg\/\">Heidelberg photo album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After an hour or so, we were absolutely frozen and decided to retreat for our hotel for the night, the Crowne Plaza.\u00a0 Along the main drag, there were shops on both sides of the street and more market stalls off the main street.\u00a0 I must say I enjoyed this market and recommend it to anyone planning a Christmas markets tour.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time we reached Heidelberg, it was dark and we were all cold and tired.\u00a0 How wonderful it would be once we were back in the\u00a0warmth of our hotel room.\u00a0 \u00a0Well! thoughts of warm comfort soon got dashed as\u00a0were deposited at the Heidelberg markets.\u00a0 As we stepped off the coach, the cold air gripped [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[453,457,458,459,2371,488,491,493,494,495,872,874,882,2113,2114,2116,2178],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-in-europe-2006","tag-christmas-concerts","tag-christmas-fairs","tag-christmas-german","tag-christmas-germany","tag-christmas-in-europe","tag-christmas-market","tag-christmas-markets","tag-christmas-markets-europe","tag-christmas-markets-germany","tag-christmas-markets-in-europe","tag-german-christmas-markets","tag-german-market","tag-germany-christmas-market","tag-weihnacht","tag-weihnachtsmarkt","tag-weinacht","tag-xmas-markets"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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