For our author, the run-up to Christmas feels like a punishment: the cold, the queues, the gift madness, the financial burden, almost unbearable. Unless you find a way out.
Advent Munich must seem like an over-dressed bride adorned with too much gold and silver. Visitors don’t come to the city primarily to look at the fancy Christmas decorations and then go straight back home. No, the people of Munich voluntarily spend hours and weeks in sub-zero temperatures before Christmas, where they invest large amounts of money on hot to lukewarm drinks in order to endure the cold.