December Love

December is beautiful, especially with all the (German) Christmas traditions.

Santa Clause & his reindeer’s flying over Karlsruhe 🎅🫶💫

Writing and sending Christmas cards to the world (yes, by post the good old fashioned way).

Adventskalender. Another beautiful German tradition. I got a beautiful one from hubby this year. 24 doors with little surprises until Christmas. I’m already excited for tomorrow’s door.

Thanks to my sister, this is our “sister tradition” for a special advent calendar. It already starts in November and lasts until January. Great to take every day some time to sit down, read & reflect. My special moment every day in the usually hectic days of December. Love that one. Thanks 💫

Christmas markets. Oh, they are so magical. The lights. The smells. The food. The drinks. And a flying Santa Clause. Excellent for meeting friends and be able to invite them for a drink: finally electronic payment is possible —> Germany goes cashless, wohoooo.

First ice curling, followed by mulled wine.

Christmas hut roof top decoration: selling waffles 🧇

Celebrated St. Nicolaus Day on December 6.

The Germans and their toilet paper… well, there’s even a Christmas version 😇

Wrapping Christmas gifts while listening to Maria Carey’s Christmas song (and hubby getting mad. Lol).

December means also the end of a very challenging work year! Time to focus and celebrate achievements. And let me tell you, there’s plenty! Home baked cake included. The team deserved it 🫶

For the team to celebrate this years achievements 💫

Office days in December look like this 🤶🏻😎

Feuerzangenbowle 🔥 is a traditional alcoholic drink for which a rum-soaked sugarloaf is set on fire and drips into mulled wine. It’s sooooo good 🥰 A tradition we do with the neighbors in the garden on one of the December weekends.