Another lovely day of decorating the flat with branches, candles, xmas ornaments, and browsing the xmas markets to soak in the mix of happy people, candies, mulled wine, carols, and presents-to-be. At Brandenburg gate I met Hartmut, my boss from ver.di, and his wife/friend Heike. They treated me to hot spicy drinks, whilst we admired the norwegian tree being illuminated (it's an 18 year old tradition, the tree is a gift by the people of Frogn close to Oslo), and listened to famous scandinavian singers Siw Malmquist, Gitte Haenning and Wencke Myhre making the crowd join into the scandinavian xmas songs. It was fun indeed! We even met Julenisse, the norwegian Santa Claus, who gave us some delicious norwegian xmas cookies. Then my friends went on to dinner before an evening at the opera, and I went on to some more xmas shopping. We might meet again today, either at Winterfeldt market, swedish bazar, or the WiZo bazar done by the jewish community.
It's a pity though the temperature rose, so there's no snow, but rain. That would have made it just perfect!
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