Advent Calendar Day 2: Frankfurt!

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Picture: Michael Probst/AP
Picture: Michael Probst/AP

The Christmas market opens in Roemerberg square in Frankfurt, Germany (poor things, getting rained on…).

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Dr Sophie Duncan is Research Fellow and Dean for Welfare at Magdalen College, Oxford. She likes Shakespeare, theatre history, detective novels, and New Orleans.

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2 thoughts on “Advent Calendar Day 2: Frankfurt!”

  1. This reminds me of the Christmas market in Strasbourg, which was a mock-medieval sugar-laden experience completed by greedy capitalist child saying “want it, want it” at every toy stall.

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    1. I went to the Birmingham Christmas Market, which was actually a vast improvement on previous years, although E. did comment that most of the chocolates selling for a fiver a packet were the very cheapest sort of German supermarket fare…

      I like the greedy capitalist child.

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