German fairytale

I AM an Irish student currently studying German in the city of Kassel in central Germany.

At the moment, just as all over Germany, Kassel is offering a Christmas market with the theme of fairytales. Despite the bleak winter cold here, the Christmas market creates a warm atmosphere.

People stand sipping mulled wine at the wooden huts, eating the traditional half-metre sausages and shopping for handmade wooden toys underneath white lights, with figures of various fairytale characters all around, appropriate for the former home of the Brothers Grimm.

Frohe Weihnachten.

Mary Bergin

B221 Arnold-Bode Strabe

4 D-34127

Kassel

Germany