Festive flea market, frost and snow, Bratwurst with cinnamon and orange, gospel songs and christmas tales, Glühwein (mulled wine) for the parents and hot punch for the kids: We spent a cold, but great afternoon and evening at Hohenzollern Castle ("Burg Hohenzollern"), the ancestral seat of the Prussian Royal family near Hechingen at the Western rim of the Swabian Alp. Unfortunately, the fog up there was so intense, we could barely see from one end of the bailey to the other. But at least we were there - later that night, three hours after we left, they closed the location for the forthcoming days due to danger of ice breakage!
