Christmas market

And I guess it's now is the time to be planning.

And frankly, if you go to a German Christmas market, you're going to be surrounded by other tourists.

My guess is if you go to Poland, you'll be cold.

It's going to be freezing cold, but you'll probably be one of the few outsiders there.

Well,

maybe not in Krakow, but in the other cities.

Uh, Krakow and Gdansk, oh my goodness, Gdansk because I think the last two years it was voted the best Christmas market in Europe.

It was so crowded in a good way and I'm very happy for them.

I froze and I loved every minute of it.

Welcome to Ultimate Christmas Markets.

I'm Andrea Anastasakis and I've spent 20 years living and travelling in Europe.

I run the largest independent guide to Europe's Christmas markets.

where I publish confirmed dates for more than 300 markets across Europe and beyond, all verified and updated weekly.

This season, I'm doing one country per episode, which markets are worth a few days, which ones are better as a day trip and what to expect when you're there.

Let's get into it.

I don't think the markets should be the entire trip in Vienna, but they can be because there are so many of them.

doing, after that, I'm back to, I'll be going to college at Hamilton Theatre Arts and I'll have two shows to do there.

One of the dance shows and then I'm doing a play and I'm also doing movement on the third year shows with at the Conservatoire in October with the actors working with Becky Hope Palmer which is exciting because I've never worked with her and then choreographing the Panto at Cumbernauld in November Busy Bee Busy Bee Busy Bee and then in December other than Youth Theatre I will be at the Christmas Markets and

I'm excited for you

No, I know.

Ah, Christmas in London.

The angels over Regent Street, Covent Garden's tree, Christmas markets beside the Thames, Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, pantomime, the Nutcracker, carols, mince pies, mulled wine, roasted chestnuts, and, if you're lucky, even a little snow.

Well, probably not.

The Brits go all out for Christmas.

If you're coming between Christmas and New Year, London is still very much decorated.

If the lights are your main reason for visiting, just don't wait until January.

Christmas markets and winter festivals.

The show notes companion guide details a full list, and you'll find that in the travel vault section of our website and also linked on the episode page on our website, readysetlondon.com.

In November of 2028, we're going back to Germany for Christmas.

Our second journey is magical Christmas markets of Germany, sailing with Alma Waterways from Frankfurt to Nuremberg beginning November 29th of 2028.

And this caught my attention for completely different reasons.

First, it's brand new.

We have.

But we've done a really extensive Christmas market post.

That was our first post ever.

Our first Christmas market podcast.

Yeah.

Very first one in November 2024.

We've been to some of the ones we talked about wanting to go to there.

And we've got quite a bit of a list that we're going to this year.

Okay, so 855-616-1620 is a Siding Unlimited WTMJ talk and text line.

We did get a text here that says, do you recommend, what is your recommendation for a European Christmas market?

It's such a hard thing for me to say.

So my very first Christmas market experience was in Germany.

Because that's kind of, if you think about that Christmas, the Kindle market that comes to Milwaukee every year, right? Down in the Pfizer Forum area.

That was my first one.

But there are also land tours where you just focus on Germany or because of the proximity to France, it might be a French and German experience.

It might be all of Bavaria.