The Christmas season is fully underway now. Sunday evening was the Samichlaus Umzug (or St. Nicholas parade) along the Bahnhofstrasse. A special red Märlitram starts the procession with the official Samichlaus and his angels. This is followed by Schmutzli, St Nick's helper, and many more dressed up Samichlauses, elves, and Schmutzlis handing out Lebkuchen to all the children. There was a band and a drum corps to provide some holiday music, and several horse drawn wagons.
Following the parade, we walked past a tree of singing children from the Züricher Musikschule where we stopped to listen and have some hot orange punch (I personally find this a horrible drink) and glühwein.
Warmed from the punch we finished up with a viewing of the famous Swarovski crystal Christmas tree in the Hauptbahnhof. (Sorry no photo of this, our camera battery gave its last gasp on the above photo).
Our friends Krista and Matt joined us and you can see their photos if you click on her blog here:
www.redandblondeabroad.com.
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