Since I moved to Birmingham, everyone has raved about the German market that takes over the city centre for December. I was skeptical.
“It’s not a real German market, is it?”, I said. “Yes, they said. Real German people come over from Germany. Frankfurt in fact. And that’s in Germany. And that makes it German.”
So, I thought i’d put it to the test - put the German market in Birmingham up against the German market, in erm, Germany.
First up, Die Weihnachtsmarkt in Hamburg.