Christmas is coming
The run up to Christmas seems to start earlier each year. One way to tell it’s Christmas in Germany is when everyone starts eating Lebkuchen (gingerbread), which comes in many different forms, but the most common is as round pieces of gingerbread baked on a thin wafer of white oblate, like in the picture above. It’s yummy and you can usually only buy it over the Christmas period.
Yesterday, Ruth and I took our cars to the local tyre dealer to get our winter wheels mounted – when we paid, we got given our first Lebkuchen of the year.