A European Christmas
Sheila Dillon visits Vienna's Christkindlmarkt to compare the European Christmas market to its British counterpart.
Sheila Dillon follows in the footsteps of The Archerβs Kathy and Kenton to explore the background, business and pleasure of Viennaβs Christmas Markets.
Sheila Dillon visits SchΓΆnbrunn Christkindlmarkt and talks to organiser Gabriella Schmiedler and tea shop owner and stallholder Andrew Demmer about the business of the market, and to city guide Uta Minnich about the history of Viennaβs Christmas markets.
Sheila Dillon visits the βMagic of Adventβ Christkindlemarkt outside the Rathaus with press office Linda Pichler, and the Freyung Christkindlemarkt with ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ correspondent Bethany Bell, and talks to gingerbread stall holder Nela Alker.
The Viennese, in common with most European countries, celebrate Christmas on the 24th with a Christmas Eve dinner, traditionally the carp.
Sheila joins Walter Osztovics, author of menβs cookery book Heroes of the Hearth (Helden am Herd), to shop to carp (from Biofisch), and for a Christmas Eve feast with Bethany Bell, and Walterβs friend and keen cook, Issy Bornemann.
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