International Glühwein Tour 2006 (part 3: Dresden)

From Berlin, we took a train down to Dresden for a day in the deep east. Dresden is a beautiful city even when it’s not decked out in its Christmas finery, and it drew us in with its promise of the Oldest Christmas Market in Europe, which is in its 572nd year. That’s a lot of Glühweins.

In addition to Glühwein in several variations, we encountered a couple other tasty hot seasonal beverages at the Christmas markets, as well. one was Eierpunsch (‘egg punch’), which was (not surprisingly) pretty similar to eggnog. The husband liked it, but I wasn’t so impressed. The other was Lumumba, a suspiciously foreign-sounding name for hot chocolate with rum or amaretto in it. Good stuff.