Local Christmas Markets

A few weekends ago the local towns, Geilenkirchen and Gangelt had their Christmas markets. The towns are small so they only do them one weekend of the year rather then everyday like the bigger towns. On Saturday I went with Elizabeth and her daughter to the market in Geilenkirchen. I hadn’t been before because I have always had classes on the weekends the markets were. The market wasn’t great compared to others I had been too, it was really small and there wasn’t too much Christmas stuff to buy. It is what I now refer to as the ghetto market. I did however get a wreath and a table decoration.

Sunday Luke and I rode our bikes to Gangelt. Gangelt always has a really nice market; we were able to go the first year that we were here. The only bad thing is that it is crowded! The market runs through the town, in and out of the little alley ways. It is nice to look around and we bought a Christmas candle holder. My favorite part of the market is the food I think, we had some Rubekuchen, which is so good, it is like a potato pancake. Unfortunately it started to rain while we were there so we didn’t get to stay too long. We got on our bikes and rode home in the rain, by the time we got home it was pouring!