Oppenheim & Wiesbaden Weinachtmarkts

Oppenheim & Wiesbaden Weinachtmarkts

Saturday we were looking forward to going to a Christmas market in Oppenheim, a town about 90 minutes from us. It wasn't supposed to be the usual Christmas market stuff, instead it is a medieval Christmas market. When we got there we were kind of disappointed, as it was really, really small and there wasn't a whole lot of anything too interesting there (unless you count the oddly dressed "medieval" people). It appeared to be more of an organized excuse for the medieval lovers to get dressed up, hang out together and make a little money at the same time. The booths were all selling medieval goodies, but nothing we hadn't seen before or that really interested us. There wasn't much to choose from in the food department either. The town has a really neat underground "city" that we thought about checking out, but the tour was an hour long and the only way to see the underground stuff was on the tour. Since Colin was in full on terrible two mode that day we decided we better try that another day. The market was so small it didn't take us long to go through it and wonder what we should do next. We decided to head north about 30 minutes to Wiesbaden, a much larger city that was supposed to have a nice market. That market turned out to be a nice surprise, one of the best ones we've been to yet! Beautiful scenery, loads of booths to browse, great food choices and lots of kiddie rides! We spent a couple hours there and loved it.