The last couple days of Glühwein tourism brought us back to Germany – specifically, Berlin and Dresden. I’m pleased to report we had great success in both cities, which offered up a variety of hot, seasonal beverages in a variety of Christmas markets.
First we headed to the ‘nostalgia market’ at Gendarmenmarkt, a relatively new Christmas Market that was specifically designed to be as cute and perfect as possible. Instead of Glühwein, many of the stands were advertising Feuerzangenbowle, which my extensive research revealed to be remarkably similar to Glühwein.
We also hit many other Christmas Markets around Berlin, including one on Unter den Linden and the one around the Gedächtniskirche. So many that after a while, they began to run together a little bit. One that stood out, at least by name, wasn’t a Christmas Market at all, but rather a Hanukkah Market. This took place in the courtyard of Berlin’s Jewish Museum. 
We had to go through a metal detector to reach it (as everyone does to gain entrance into the museum). Around the market there were plaques in English and German which explained about Hanukkah and the holiday traditions of German Jews, which had developed into a sort of ‘Chrismukka‘ (‘Weihnukka’ in German) – a combination of Hanukkah and Christmas traditions that incorporated both their religion and the local celebrations that were mainstream in their country (something that occurs in the US, too). And of course, there was Glühwein.