{"id":457,"date":"2012-12-02T16:40:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joncu.roguenet.org\/swissblog\/?p=457"},"modified":"2021-09-21T23:45:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T23:45:12","slug":"christmas-begins-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/2012\/12\/02\/christmas-begins-bern\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas begins – Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weihnachtsmarkt, or Christmas Market, began in Bern on Saturday 12\/1.\u00a0 Jon and I walked into Bern, taking side streets just to see something different.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent most of the day strolling through the Christmas Market in Romerplatz, the downtown stores, and the handcraft market by the cathedral.\u00a0\u00a0 Booths in the Romerplatz were sturdily built with wood platforms, walls and roofs, rather permanent looking though they\u2019ll only be there 3 weeks.<\/p>\n

\"Weihnachtsmarket<\/a>

Overlooking the Christmas Market from the second story of a temporary tavern. Of course we were sipping “Gluhwein”.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Didgeridoo<\/a>

For Alpenhorn players who want something new<\/p><\/div>\n

We found a beautiful edelweiss shirt for Jon and a couple small gifts for friends here, then headed home by a different route.<\/p>\n

\"Craft<\/a>

Craft market by the Cathedral<\/p><\/div>\n

Jon wore his pedometer for our little trip and was happy to see over 17,000 total steps for the day, which amounts to 15km!<\/p>\n

Now (Sunday) snow is falling softly but steadily.\u00a0 Our world is white again.\u00a0 This time many of the trees have finished dropping their leaves, so we\u2019re looking out on a graceful tracery of branches, as we try to keep warm in this decidedly under-heated apartment.\u00a0 Hot chocolate almond milk, anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weihnachtsmarkt, or Christmas Market, began in Bern on Saturday 12\/1.\u00a0 Jon and I walked into Bern, taking side streets just to see something different.\u00a0\u00a0 We spent most of the day strolling through the Christmas Market in Romerplatz, the downtown stores, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jmcw.blog\/swissblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}