Christmas Markets we love: Frankfurt and Heidelberg

We are back!! And we have a lot of things to show you. Every year we visit some Christmas markets to look for some inspiration and discover other traditions from other countries. If last year was the UK, this year we flew to Germany -Frankfurt and Heidelberg-.

Heidelberg (Germany)

There, we were inspired by the German traditions; Glühwein (or in other word: mulled wine) and sausages were our favs. We also discovered lovely gingerbread hearts and figures, marzipan sweets, waffles and pretzels.

These were the sweet stuff but we also found out handmade objects not to eat: honey candles, handmade nutcrackers (it reminds me the Christmas tale), cute teddy bears and tiny houses to decorate your home. We enjoyed the magic of these two cities and we have no complaints about the cold, it was quite nice.

We also pass by Frankenstein's castle… so creepy! We preferred not to stay close and we took no pictures… just in case :S

We want to thank our friends Rodolfo Box and Vera Kühn for being so nice with the SelfPackaging team. Hope to see you soon in Barcelona.

CHRISTMAS MARKETS WE LOVE

We’ve just landed from London! If you want to inspire yourself and be surrounded by the Christmas spirit what a better place in Europe: London. That’s our first stop, we’ll be glad to visit more Christmas Markets all around the old continent. Let’s start our tour.

This weekend in London, in Brixton, it was held one of these Christmas events. Good music, warm welcome and a lot of lovely handmade objects. Between knitting and designing we spent a great time. We hope to visit London again and if it coincides with Crafty Fox Market, much better, we’ll go there for sure. We bought some of our Christmas gifts for our Secret Santa at the office.

But London has a compulsory stop at Christmas: Winter Wonderland. For whom doesn’t know it, it’s a Christmas fair you can find in Hyde Park, plenty of Christmas rides, food and crafts stalls, and of course, lights, mulled wine, Santas, ice ring, reindeers and Christmas carols playing everywhere.

We spent a wonderful time there, meeting craftsmen and craftswomen or experienced marzipan, cupcake and cookie bakers.

We brought the Christmas magic back to Spain, where our headquarters are, to spare it around our office and to inspire our studio staff to make and customize our littleboxes much better.