{MATCHLESS} PHOTOGRAPHY wedding photographers » Dusseldorf http://matchlessphotography.com/blog wedding and portrait photography in san angelo texas Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:56:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Düsseldorf WeihnachtsMarkt (Christmas Market) http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/19/dusseldorf-weihnachtsmarkt-christmas-market/ http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/19/dusseldorf-weihnachtsmarkt-christmas-market/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:43:48 +0000 admin http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/?p=1565 After meeting up with Tom for lunch and eating some authentic Germany food, we headed to the Christmas Market.  All of the larger towns in Germany have a Christmas Market.  They are set up for Advent – which is about 4 weeks before Christmas.  (And on a quick random side note… Germany has the most amazing Advent Calendars!!!)  So anyway, these Christmas Markets are a place where you can find food, drinks, christmas decorations, and tons of other stuff.  There are heaps of booths set up and each one has something different in it.  I could easily spend all day wondering around looking at all the German Christmas stuff.  We also tried some yummy foods.  Some of the foods and drinks you get at the Christmas markets, are only available at Christmas time.  We ate some candy coated almonds, a dikkman (chocolate coated moose dome thing), little pancake things, waffles (which are a snack here not a breakfast food), Reibekuchen (mashed potatoes patties served with applesauce), something similar to a pizza with onion ham and a white cream sause, and tried some glüwein (a warm mulled spiced red wine).  It was all so delicious and wished we had more time to try more things.  Anyway,  here are a couple pictures of the Düsseldorf Christmas Market.


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]]> http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/19/dusseldorf-weihnachtsmarkt-christmas-market/feed/ 1 Düsseldorf http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/17/dusseldorf/ http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/17/dusseldorf/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:20 +0000 admin http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/?p=1547 Düsseldorf is the city we flew into and where Tom works. It has around 600,000 people living there and is quite a fun place to see. Svenja took us one day to check out the town. Our first stop was the TV tower. We went to the top and Svenja gave us a 360 degree guided tour.

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Apparently this bridge is an icon of Düsseldorf. And it is built over the Rhine river.

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In this picture you can see how the houses/flats are built in circles. Svenja explained that this is to help block the noise of traffic. She guessed the bedrooms face towards the inside of the circle where it is quieter.

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This is an old port in Düsseldorf. They updated it awhile back so it would continue to be a nice and safe part of town. Here are some of the cool/funky buildings that they built.

i love the people climbing up the wall.

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