Frankfurt: Mercado de navidad – Christmas market
Español:
Gracias a mi trabajo tuve la oportunidad de visitar el mercado de navidad de Frankfurt (Alemania). Parecia uno de los mas grandes, se extendia sobre 2 plazas grandes e incluso parte de las callejas cerca. Finalmente pude conseguir mis tan amados Lebkuchen (pan de jengibre) en todas formas y tipos! Ademas habia los tipicos vinos (tintos) calientes con especias, un poco como ponche. Hasta habia Feuerzangenbowle (foto mas abajo), un tipo especial de vino tinto seco y especias. A diferencia del vino caliente normal, el vino se calienta en una caldera u otro recipiente y encima de este se quema un cono de azucar, empapado con ron. El azucar se convierte en caramel y gotea en el vino. Aparte se vendian artesania, decoracion de navidad, salchicas, rosquillas (Brezeln) saladas o con chocolate, brochetas de frutas con una capa de chocolate, almendras tostadas,…
English:
Thanks to my job I had the opportunity to see Frankfurt’s (Germany) christmas market. It seemed to be one of the largest, it was spread over two huge squares and parts of some alleys next to them. Finally I could get my beloved Lebkuchen (gingerbread) in every imaginable form and type! Besides there was this hot spiced wine, a bit like punch. They even offered Feuerzangenbowle (see pic further below). Actually it’s kind of similiar to the hot spiced wine. It just differs from the “normal” hot spiced wine in the sense that you heat it in a caldron or another type of pot and above it there’s a cone of sugar soaked by rum. The sugar caramelizes and drops into the red wine below. Apart from that they were selling handcraft stuff, christmas decoration, sausages, pretzels (salted or with a chocolate layer), fruit skewers with chocolate, roasted almonds,…
Casa de pan de jengibre
Gingerbread house
Corazones de pan de jengibre
Gingerbread hearts
Cabezas del negro o besos del negro (traduccion literal del aleman): Contiene algo como espuma de azucar
Negro heads or kisses (literal translation from German): Contain something like a sugar foam
Una variedad de las clasicas cabezas del negro
Variety of the classic negro heads 
Ceramic German medieval houses
Casas alemanas medievales de ceramica
Feuerzangenbowle
en una caldera (esta cosa blanca encima es el cono de azucar)
in a caldron (the white thing above is the sugar cone)
Al parecer la ultima moda: Almendras tostadas de cualquier sabor. En tiempos pasados solo eran de azucar con algunas especias. Hoy las hay de amaretto, chicle, Red Bull, chocolate de menta, café,… hasta con chile! No sé como lo miden, pero las habia en poco picante, picante y muy picante. Podias probar antes de comprar y entre otras cosas tuve que probar las de chile. Tengo que admitir que las picantes media hora después todavia las sentia en la boca. El vendedor quedaba tan impresionado que toco la campana que tenia (no sé por que la verdad).
Obviously the latest fashion: Toasted almonds of whatever flavor. In former times they were just sugared and had some spices. Today they were available in amaretto, chewing gum, Red Bull, mint chocolate, coffee flavor,… even with chili! No idea how they measure it, but you could get them less hot, hot, very hot. Before buying you could try them and amongst others I had definitely to taste the chili ones. I have to admit that I still felt the hot almonds half an hour later. The vendor was so impressed that he rang the bell he had(actually I’m no quite sure why).
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