Frankfurt Christmas Market at Night
hi this is jo ator from frankfurt on foot and tonight we are at the Frankfurt Christmas market yeah in the evening when all the lights are on so it's all pretty this is the best this is the best thing at the entire frankfurt Christmas market are all these lovely almonds and they're and they'll let you try them out so they'll give you a little card i know they're the best eyes and low they'll give you a card and every time you come here you can uh they'll stamp your card and at the end of the Christmas market you'll have like three free bags of almonds seriously wonderful okay i'll be back and there's our Christmas tree there's a little gretel i shouldn't say little Gretel big Gretel let's come back around over here because this is pretty back in here so if you want to sit up in here and eat it's a 2g so it's Tuesday night it's been a little bit rainy and damp today so it's not too busy you know they've got the stand spread out nicely oh it looks all nice and lovely with the lights on should we watch the carousel? hey well Gretel is kind of waving in the wind it's really windy tonight it's not too bad down in here so yeah it's definitely not too full which is nice this is so pretty with all the lights on so they got bait mention here so these are really cool looking here like those these are Swetschken Männer, so you can see they are made out of dried prunes everything's all glistening from the rain I'm so glad it stopped raining so here at the Christmas markets it's all masked like you have to wear a mask pretty much everywhere downtown right now there's Haus Wertheim, we're going to go down here to the river and see the stands that are down here because we haven't come down here yet my other video we didn't make it down this far because nothing was open i made that early in the in the day and things were just starting to open up oh let's admire the stuff that's here in the windows okay this is all delectable so they make everything here oh they've got this marvelous Frankfurter kranz in there Frankfurter kranz are supposed to be the crown for the holy roman emperor. so if you like potato pancakes this is the best potato pancakes that i've had pretty much anywhere this is kaiser there's usually a big line here but because it's Tuesday night and it's been raining there's nobody here yet so let's come down here and see what they have like a fish oi fire now normally by this time of night at a regular Christmas market, all these Glühwein Stands would be absolutely filled with people and now they got the gluhwein stands like all spread all around the Christmas market and you know it's pretty empty looking oh let's look at the sausages let's look at the würstchen on the fire. great sausages and then this guy over here has got the hot roasted chestnuts here's the Eisener Steg here, got the pyramid going around and I guess that's it I thought they were gonna have some more down here but that's about it so let's go back up see what else we can see here with all the lights on now that the rain stopped it was supposed to snow today but it didn't instead it rained it feels cold enough to snow so what do you eat potato pancakes with so you can have this with sour cream and garlic or with apple sauce let's get a close-up picture of this yummy stuff cooking so you can decide you want to have with applesauce or with the garlic sour cream i'm a garlic sour cream person that's so pretty with the lights on i've just spent 10 days at home with covid I felt okay after the first two days but the health department says you have to stay home for 10 days so I did I behaved so they've got potato pancakes over here but they're not as good as kaiser so if you want to go into the little Glühwein places you they're doing 2g so it means either you're vaccinated or you're recovered I get to be both now the bells are ringing oh look at these look at all these delicious chocolate pralines this is the feuerzange bowle that they're doing back in here this great big pot they put rum on top of the sugar they light it and then it drips down into the glühwein these are so pretty so the bells that you're hanging hearing are from the Alte Nikolai this church here it's the only carillon of bells in frankfurt so there's 47 bells and they ring up there three times a day automatically so we got crepes over here take another look now we're doing churros over here i had churros in spain i'm pretty sure that they can't compete with that i'm just gonna go on up here a little bit we'll go check out the pink Christmas market and then we'll go look at the christmas market that's in the thurn and taxis we already went up and down all these aisles the other day another video so you can see all the things that were for sale we need some place to sit during the christmas market this place here has wonderful food and coffee jamie's burgers if you want to have a burger you're tired of german food and fair food it's still pretty windy I wasn't sure about coming out here and filming in the wind it certainly looks different at nighttime with all I thought it'd be a little bit more crowded but for Tuesday night it was pretty decent we don't really want it to be more any more crowded than this we want our incidents rates to go down and they went down the last couple of days so that's a plus I like all the steam coming off of the hummus stand here mountains of fries what's your favorite thing to eat at the frankfurt Christmas market I kind of just go for those potato pancakes from kaiser that's about it i can't think of anything else at the Christmas market i really like to eat a lot these little stands are cute so we're almost through the Liebfrauen Platz how would you say that the crepe stand and here they've got these chocolate kisses these are all different flavors you name it they've got the flavor tasty stuff so they're doing potato pancakes over there but not as good as kaiser we've got chocolate covered fruit a little stands back in there we can go back and have some glüh wein we've got langos here langos so this is a neat place to come and get all your greens and your wreath and your flowers and they've got advent wreaths down here too so we'll head on up here to the Hauptwache Liebfrauen church uh so they're supposed to be making some decisions today uh Austria is supposed to be making some decisions tomorrow and then Germany's supposed to be making some decisions on Thursday i'm not sure about what they're talking about making vaccinations a requirement um partial lockdowns like the Netherlands have gone to a partial lockdown so basically, at five o'clock everything shuts down all the stores all the restaurants everything shuts down at five o'clock so here we are on the Zeil we've got some Christmas lighting this year first time we've had any Christmas lighting for several years popcorn and almonds so that's your german word for the day is mandaln up here that means almonds and when we get done filming we're going back down to Eisenloh and get some almonds because i've got my little card when I have bought 10 bags I get a free bag and here we are at the hump vodka let's see what this all looks like with the lights on a little bit more crowded down here the skyscrapers let's go down and see what's at the Thurn and Taxis, they're supposed to be having a little Christmas market in there I kind of miss having um the windows at the store the department store they even have Christmas windows I don't have any this year i can see a great big gigantic reindeer sitting in front of the turn in taxes palace so it's fun to walk around the city at night time while the lights are on and the traffic and people hustling and bustling around compared to last year this is like 10 times better with other restaurants and stuff and then last year I think what the 10th of December or something like that they like closed all the retail stores too it was so sad so this is the Thurn and Taxis palace the gigantic reindeer in front of it so if you go into MyZeil there's more of these giant reindeers that's quite pretty with the lights I am just looking so they're checking uh vaccinations and stuff here so i'm not going to go inside because there's nothing to do in there anyway except to drink some Glühwein so we'll go back down to the Christmas market but if you want to have a place to um be a little bit out of the wet weather the wind and the rain it's all pretty with nice lights the tournament texas palace might be the place for you to go to well there's a Thurn and Taxis palace down on Regensburg of course and they've got a fabulous Christmas market or they would normally if Bavaria hadn't canceled all of their Christmas markets but that's usually a Christmas market that people recommend that you go to so they have on the windows they have stuffed animals but just a couple normally they would have like really really wonderful things here in the windows Christmas windows so go down and see the pink Christmas market I know we can't get into that either because that's a 2g you can at least see where it's at so if you come here you can go visit devices it's nice to see them being strict about checking for vaccines and stuff before they let people in I know this is strict at restaurants I get checked every single restaurant I go to you can see how windy it is blowing around so it's almost 5 30 on a Tuesday night and it's pretty empty normally on a Tuesday night this would be pretty full we can go admire the salmon on open fire here now that it's dark so here the one great big huge meat skewers and then they stick a brotchen on the end of it so they either have pork or they have turkey they're eight euros there's another nice swinging grill more almonds a know the kids down here tonight I haven't seen like hardly any I guess because it's a school night it's Tuesday it's a little pink market is back in here it's basically just a little bit of food some drinks and I think they have a few items for sale but not a lot and it is all fenced off and it is a 2g area so I can't get into film because my vaccination thing is on my phone I would have to stop filming I don't really feel like doing that so you can tell it's the pink Christmas market because it's all pink as you can see and look inside here tables and things to eat and things to drink again it's not very crowded I know they've got different kind of meat stuff and potato pancakes and Feuerzange Bowle and all that good stuff so that is the Rosa market it's right here next to the Hauptwache so we're going to go right on past the Hautpwache up to the Rossmarket where there's another section of the Frankfurt Christmas market because they've made it a little bit bigger this year see how it has stopped raining and it is pleasant outside the lights are all nice and everything's shiny and glistening off the streets got nice light reflections so there's the Hauptwaceh if you're coming in from the airport this is the stop that you want to get off at if you want to come to the Frankfurt Christmas market if you're coming in from Wiesbaden or mines this is a stop you want to get off at it's a little choo-choo train so if you want to ride that with your child they make you pay for it so the kid is three euros and the grown-up is 3.50. so I kind of see that a lot in german festivals and stuff was like they don't let the parents ride with their little kid so you can sit out there and have uh some Glühwein here at the bodega we can see it it's all lit up nicely and all this area where I've been walking so far it is all you need to wear a mask and you can tell because they have these signs up everywhere they say masks, Santa and Rudolph with their masks on so up here it says Weihnachts Rossmarkt, so this is the first time this has been down here it's kind of nice to see the Christmas market stretch out and not be so crowded into the one little areas other large cities do that they have their Christmas markets and all these different areas it's nice to see frankfurt finally do this too and I hope they keep up with it even after covered but they go inside of this I need to show my vaccination thing and it is on my phone so I would have to stop filming so we're just going to walk around the outside of it so you can see it and see what they have I like how they have the cranes all lit up so if you want to go in here and then it's 2g but they have some stains out here that aren't what are they doing here? those look like donut holes all different kinds looks like they're doing it all by hand here all delicious chocolate-covered fruit here got some stollin we don't want to have a whole big stollin they got little teeny tiny stollin here look how cute two euros over here we've got more almonds all different flavors and this is a 2g area and you can see pretty empty I think once you go in here you can take your mask off if you want to this is Jo, I'm saying goodbye now this is about it for the Frankfurt Christmas market i hope you've enjoyed it and I'll see you again at the next Christmas market thanks for watching and thanks for subscribing bye
2021-12-09 17:24
