Weihnachtsmarkt in Hannover

Today I got to see Hannover by daylight for the first time. Until today, I've only spent daylight hours in the office & wandered the city in the evening. Its kind of nice, especially in the old part of town. The sun was bright and low on the horizon, low enough that walking south you could see things ahead, but people were colorless shadows with edges of their heads shining as they moved in all different directions. The market smelled rich and herbal from the glühwein & the grills cooking meats, and at times walking by a candy stand the smell of licorice was overpowering. I didn't really buy anything giftwise. There's not too much appropriate for taking back that direction.

One thing I couldn't resist trying was on the Finnish Christmas market. They were smoking Salmon right there on the market and serving it up.

They had Reindeer sausage and meat available as well, but that wasn't nearly as tasty as these beauties were. And they were tasty indeed with some Finnish beer.