OK – SAUSAGE IS NICE BUT WON’T WE FREEZE IN GERMANY IN DECEMBER?

Q –  My wife and I are contemplating a river cruise in  November/December 2017 and have a questions: Does it make sense to be on a river cruise for these Christmas markets considering that the outside temperature is going to be lower and might prevent you from fully enjoying the aspects of a river cruise – in other words, we would assume you could not be outside on the deck to enjoy the scenery.

A – Well you can be outside on the upper deck provided you have saved all of the gear you had on the last time you climbed Everest. Yes, central Europe is cold during the Christmas Season – but that is why it feels so much like what Christmas ought to be but often isn’t. The warm mulled Gluewein will surely warm you up so you will be prepared for grilled sausages of the highest caliber. You will be huddled up against the wind, and you will encounter some rain, and it won’t at all be like your last vacation in Jamaica. But, somehow, you will feel a real part of an authentic winter festival that just doesn’t stop. We love the Christmas Market River cruises and we’d do the trip just for the schnitzel.