Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

This weekend we went to "the Christmas capital of the world"! At least that's what Strasbourg calls itself, and Geneva certainly isn't it, so we were game. Each street had its own decorations with lights, Santas, and garland. There were booths set up in all of the squares in the city with hot wine, snacks, and trinkets. The hot wine came in reusable cups, and we walked around while sipping it. Kind of like a Christmas Vegas.

  

This tree was huge. See how it towers over the buildings in the background??

The town has historically been both German and French (it's right on the border of the two countries), so there is a mix of both that you can see in the buildings. 

I made John do an impression of the buildings.

The food that we ate this weekend consisted of hot wine, crepes, more hot wine, roasted chestnuts, flam (an Alsacian regional food like a pizza but with cream sauce), beignets (like donuts but in different shapes), hot wine, and Subway. Yes, Subway. I have no regrets. I ate a turkey on wheat (unfortunately without banana peppers...ugh, but fortunately with honey mustard sauce). It was delicious, and I am not ashamed.