The first signs of Christmas

One of the things I am enjoying about Germany is seasonality and that Christmas hype doesn’t start in September. (Milton Keynes shopping centre was full of Christmas decorations and other forms of landfill tat in early September.) When we arrived, restaurants had special Pfefferlinge menus with dishes based on local mushrooms (chanterelles). Now the menus have a lot of pumpkin.

On Saturday 5 November, we noticed the first signs of Christmas marketing: a lego window display complete with sound effects.

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