blauboy’s posthaven

Party, presents and snow: The day before christmas eve night we threw a little block party for the people in our street. Nothing big, just a few hours of drinking beer, winter-bbq and talking.This year we celebrated our pre-christmas-party with our neighbours the fifth year in a row! We went to church on the 24th, had tagliatelle with grilled king prawns for dinner and watched two happy girls unwrap their (roundabout) 1000 Christmas presents...While the nicest gift for all of us was still to come: snow on the morning after Christmas covered our community in white!

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!