Maroni Roasting on an Open Fire: Christmas Markets and Krampus in Bavaria and Austria
December 11th 2009 We’ve been blessed with another long weekend! This time it’s for Maria Empfängnis (The Immaculate Conception). So we spent the first part of the weekend (Fri.-Mon.) in Munich, and then we headed back to the Salzkammergun in Austria for a Krampus Perchtenlauf. Krampus is the evil counterpart of Nikolaus (St. Nick), and instead of elves, he has little demonic Perchten as followers. At the P
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