Harrogate Christmas Market

This weekend the town was filled with people, good food, and good smells for the Harrogate Christmas market.  Alfie and I stopped by for a preview on Thursday and then P and I took a real visit on Saturday.  There were lots of traditional foods - German-style sausages, fudge, and mince pies (yuck!).  They also had many vendors of local Yorkshire goods (aka lots of wool and sheep skin things!).  Interestingly, they also had a children's area that had 5-6 small rides.

Tomorrow, we head to Germany and will visit the Munich Christmas Market, so it'll be very interesting to compare the two - though I imagine the original Christmas market will be much bigger!  Here are a few photos from this weekend -

The scene walking down to the Christmas market

Roasted Chestnuts - crazy - right?

Drinking chocolate... spiked.  There was WAY more alcohol there than I imagined - mulled wine and spiked cider to artisanal gin:

Here are the kids rides - how funny!