Took advantage of the beautiful Spring weather and took a drive to Sankt Wendel today. OK, partially because I wanted to help get a fellow teacher out of the house as she had brain surgery not long ago and has been cooped up in her house since, but also because I wanted to go to the Easter market. Somehow in my mind I had visions of the market being somewhat like the one I went to a few weeks ago in Kloster Eberbach with all sorts of hand painted eggs, and hand carved eggs, and the like...nope, wasn't like that really at all. It reminded me more of the Christmas markets, only with Easter theme. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it but I don't really recall seeing many eggs at all at this market.
That being said, Sankt Wendel is a lovely town about an hour or so away from my house. To get there you go through some really pretty areas with rolling hills and trees and just pretty German countryside.
I have already said that the market wasn't as I had expected...and it was kind of a disappointment on that point but as a market, it was still quite nice. There were some pretty Spring/Easter decorations to be found and it didn't hurt that the market basically surrounds this beautiful church. I have to say it is one of my favorites thus far in my journeys here. I am sure the pictures will do it no justice at all. All around the outside walls of the church there were these cute little Easter scenes (they reminded me of really big dioramas). I didn't get to spend as much time looking around as I might have liked because Julia got tired, so rather than making her do more than she could or should we left after not too long. Not much was bought (well other than a yummy crepe with nutella and banana...mmmm mmmm good). So here are some pictures of the market and of course from the church.
I still want to find more of the eggs, so perhaps tomorrow if the weather is nice I will venture over to Weisbaden and check out there market (it has advertised that they have all sorts of eggs...we shall see).
Some of the stalls from the market:
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| Yummy, Nutella, Banana...and fresh Crepe cooking on the crepe griddle. |
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| They decorate everything for Easter. Even an old branch becomes pretty. |
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| These were so cute...too expensive for me but cute none the less. |
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| This is the fountain in the market square. It is decorated with thousands of eggs that are collected through the year and then strung together (the eggs are hollowed out and hand painted). |
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| I loved the planters like this one. The problem was that they were heavy and I didnt bring a rolling bag (yes, they are popular to use here) so I didnt get any of these, but they are not only pretty but inexpensive too. This one was about $15 |
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| these hanging pottery birds reminded me of Angry Birds. |
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These guys were too funny. They spoke in English with a French accent at a German Easter market. I have included a clip of part of their song for your musical enjoyment.
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| One of the few things I bought...its a little watering can with flowers planted in it. Very cute :) |
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| This guy was melting down pewter and molding it. |
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| The guy above was singing a little song that was for the kids...and part of the song had the partners pinch each others noses and then dance around (or so I would guess since that is what they did). |
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| These looked so interesting and smelled delicious...but the line was horrible. So from what I could gather there is pastry dough that is wound around these metal spindles where are then placed over the coals. the spindles rotate while the pastry is cooked. Then when done they are covered in cinnamon sugar and then the pastry is taken off the spindle and you peel off pieces to eat. |
These are some of the little Easter scenes (the rather large dioramas probably about 3 feet x 4 feet):
These are some pictures of the church. It really was beautiful and from what I understand, it is rarely ever open for the general public to enter, so it was just the right timing.
