It might also be related to the German national sport of faking statistics and wanking over meaningless numbers, because the reporting requirements for sick days have recently changed. Of course, the press will use this to shit on workers’ rights.
oops, thanks for the heads-up, wanted to tag it as English and must have slipped.
It’s small and only on one weekend, but nice.
Unfortunately you won’t find Christmas markets like that in the touristy places and big cities, because they’ll typically charge a shitload of rent for a spot to put up a stall, so only commercial vendors with rip-off prices can afford to take part.
In small towns and villages, the organisers will possibly ask for a small charge for the consumables (water, electricity) your stall uses, but rarely for the space, and if so, then very little. Due to the short duration of those small Christmas markets, they are unattractive for the typical commercial fairground vendors, so you’ll only find stalls run by the local non-profits and small businesses.
Ours had stalls offering the following:
There were a few more, but I can’t recall precisely what they sold, I totally blame the exquisite selection of vendors of hot alcoholic beverages for that.
I was to my local (German village) Christmas market, and it was nice. Alle the stalls run by local nonprofits or small businesses, resulting in reasonable prices. You’d have to forcibly drag me if you wanted me to go to a fully commercial big city Christmas market with its outrageously inflated prices and silly paranoid security theater.
No, only pretending to be happy, also complaining a lot. Especially about the local food if it’s anything else than Schnitzel.
Yes, it’s horrible. I have zero aversions towards getting drunk, but this so-called party music is so repetitive, stupid, and devoid of any musical talent that no amount of alcohol can possibly make it bearable.
According to most employers and politicians, (who, surely by sheer coincidence, have never done any honest work in their life) it is.