Deutschland, Deutschland uber alless.......

So goes the beginning of the banned song from the days of the Third Reich. But such was the happy mood of the people and the orderly way of life of course served up 'with lashings of ' Gluhwein. The daughter and I found it very cold and so almost as soon as we arrived at the market (about a 15 minute walk from our Hotel) we decided to 'warm ourselves up' with a mug of the traditional mulled wine. It really did help to warm us up and we noticed that most people were drinking theirs as they browsed around the hundreds of stalls. Another thing we quckly noticed is that about every 10th stall (or so) was another Gluhwein stall and so we were never without a cup of the delicious hot spiced wein that slid so easily over the tongue and down the back of the throat! I was telling the daughter about the years we spent living and working in Germany and the fun we had there and she understood more how we could have settled so well into the German lifestyle. After chatting and eating and drinking our fill we felt it would be better to wait until the next day to do our shopping and so made our way back to our Hotel, arm in arm.
Something else we noticed was how many of the young adults were enjoying themselves but there was so nastiness, no swearing, no fighting, no threatening behaviour that we all know so well from our own groups of youths. Of course not all our youths are to be tarred with the same brush but I know I would not have felt as comfortable in UK walking around with my daughter in amongst crowds of people like that.
A word here should be said about the state of the public toilets - have you ever been to mobile loo's at a funfair, festival etc? I don't if ever I can help it but the daughter has described the dreadful state of them to me, enough to make me heave at the very thought....but I have to say, the mobile loo's were so clean, an attendant collected 30 cents and went in to wipe the seat, floor and make sure everything was kept spotless after EVERY person. Altogether an enjoyable experience.....they certainly know how to live.