The official Christmas Market season is upon us! Christkindlmarkts, Weihnachtsmarkts - whatever you want to call it, it is here. We kicked off this year at Valkenburg in The Netherlands. It is held in the "world famous caves" below the city.
We've been wanting to check this one out for over a year now. We just didn't have time last year (part of our Christmas season was spent in France, Spain, and Andorra), so we decided last night to make it there today. 
While the setting was very unusual, it was really quite a letdown. No Gluwein (THE HORROR!!!), and a huge lack of food vendors in the caverns made for a less than optimal Weihnachtmarkt. You can see that we still had a good time, we're just looking forward to some of the others even more.
And for some random photos - we had our first snow of the year too - on Thanksgiving day. The view below is from one of our upstairs windows, facing away from our village. There was quite the snow line just a few meters up in elevation.
This last photo is a panorama of five or six photos stitched together in photoshop. I then made it a black and white in Lightroom (also a Photoshop family product). You can see our house, as well as a bit of our castle through the snow storm brewing. This one was from Thanksgiving day, and was literally the first day of snow.
Have a wonderful day everyone. We are headed to the castle for the medieval Weihnachtsmarkt tomorrow - much less of a drive ; )
Tschuss!
Marc
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