Saturday night. The coldest November night so far, shortly followed by snow on Sunday morning. Nonetheless, we trekked up to Victoria Square for Gluhwein and Berliners. It wouldn't be Christmas in Birmingham without the Haribo stall, the phallic chocolate cakes with wafer bottoms and liquid mallow centre, the decorative wooden merry-go-rounds, the vintage Victoriana corkscrew slide, the crowds gathering around the Deutsche bars for a weissbier, and the garlic-bulb shaped 'Knobi Brot' stall selling garlic bread topped with a healthy sized portion of garlic sausage and drizzled with garlic sauce.
It's the one occasion we all forget who won the war and embrace a currywurst and a pint of Erdinger.
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