Enchanting Christmas in Europe

Christmas in Europe is stealing something from you the moment you arrive. Your sense of reality

vanishes when ancient cities transform into glowing fairy tale kingdoms that shouldn't exist

in the modern world. Nuremberg's Christkindlesmarkt opens with a golden angel appearing on a church balcony,

her voice carrying across the crowd like a spell being cast. Two million people

gather in this single German city, drawn by forces they can't explain. The wooden stalls

form maze-like pathways where you lose track of time completely. Vienna wraps itself in five million

lights that turn the entire city into a shimmering jewel box. Horse-drawn carriages

clip-clop through streets that Mozart once walked, their bells chiming in harmony with