09 Dec

Halfway through our bus drive from Germany to Switzerland we stopped at the House of Black Forest Clocks. There were souvenirs, cuckoo clocks, grandfather clocks as well as their famous, and supposedly the original, black forest cake. The owner gave us a free postcard with the cake recipe on the back. The cake had a nice, moist chocolate sponge layer, but I still don’t like glace cherries. [caption id="attachment_2226" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Original Black Forest Cake[/caption]...

15:45 / Black Forest / Dessert/Sweets / Food / German / Germany / House of Black Forest Clocks / Restaurants / Travel
26 Nov

On arrival at the apartment, we realised that the German Market had already opened even though it was only 5pm (someone earlier had told us it opened at 7pm). We briefly went around to see what food there was. It was mainly hot food such as sausages, crepes, various potato dishes, alcohol and chocolate, trinket stalls and stalls selling gingerbread and German Christmas cake, which has marzipan and raisins in it. The other part of the market had rides including a ice-skating rink. At a lower level there...

18:12 / Bread / Edinburgh / German / German Market / Scotland / Travel / United Kingdom
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