we went to the brussels xmas market last year and hope to visit either lille or the brugge one this year..anyone been or can recommend either one... ... - .- -.




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I did the Lille market a couple of years back. It is ok but a lot smaller than I was expecting. The market was mostly amusement rides, a handful of stalls selling Christmas decorations and quite a few food stalls. The good thing about Lille is that, being a large city, there is plenty of accommodation. If you have been to Lille before, I would skip the Christmas market.

I haven't tried the Brugges market but Brugge is always good for food and beer

The family and I like to go to Christmas markets to buy decorations (the hand crafted stuff). We did Amiens last year which we found over commercialised with lots of crap. We have also done Vienna (in front of the town hall) which is a large market with a lot of hand crafts.

The market I want to try is Strasbourg near the French/German border (about a 10 hour drive from Calais). That is meant to be really good.

Have a look on TripAdvisor. There are threads dedicated to Christmas markets. Paul

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The Black Forest Germany ones are meant to be good. We went to Freiburg im Breisgau but they are everywhere!

according to my readings on the interweb, the brussells one is the biggest with 240 stalls? and the lille and bruges ones have 50/80 stalls so not very big....the strasburg one looks very inviting but its a bit of a slog to get there.. ... - .- -.




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They do a very nice German market in St Enoch Square in Glasgow!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
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..as they do in leeds and birmingham but its not the same ... ... - .- -.




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scarey wrote:

..as they do in leeds and birmingham but its not the same ...

Well at least in Glasgow they speak a foreign language!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
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I've been to the Brugge Xmas markets a number of times and the stalls are not very good at all.

there is a good all year round shop called Kathe Wolfart? Which has decorations from 2euro up to 500 euro.

Munich market is fantastic! CURRENT : FFRR 2012 4.4 TDV8
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Going to the Munich one over a long weekend in Dec, Tunnel and Hotel all booked can't wait

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Going to the Munich one over a long weekend in Dec, Tunnel and Hotel all booked can't wait

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essen in germany is also a good one 2002 td6 vogue, 06 supercharged facelift

are these the same size or bigger/smaller than the brussels one.. ... - .- -.




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