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Sunday, December 18, 2005 Christmas Cheer This is a Berlin Weihnachtsmarkt. At most German Christmas markets, you shove your way through crowds of recalcitrant and impatient people and try to look at the merchandise -- sweaters and scarves, woolly hats, Lebkuchen, quaint wooden figurines -- then relieve the stress of battling other holiday-minded strangers with a cup of Gluehwein (mulled wine) or, more mysteriously, Gluehbier, which is a cup of steaming beer shot with cherry syrup.  Notice a few people in this photo are sitting on radiators and strapped into big brown coats suspended by thin cords from black metal racks. This is not a Teutonic torture device, but a way to keep warm. I tried it and almost fell off the radiator.  This is a portable sauna, open only after 6pm, when it's too dark in Berlin to discreetly photograph strangers dashing naked from the wooden-walled trailer into a Swedish hot tub. posted by Michael Scott Moore | 9:15 PM
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Is this at the Kulturbrauerei? Looks pleasant enough...I do think that rather than the trailor I'd walk the few blocks to Saunabad on Rykestrasse. And please, tell me you've forgone the Gluehbier; die spinnen, echt.
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