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Well, good morning, adventurers. Good morning and merry Christmas to everyone. What do you guys think of our awesome Christmas mugs? It's got a top that we will probably break immediately. Yes, definitely. Man, can you guys believe that 2025 is almost faking over already? We're halfway to the 30s, you guys. The I never thought it's like a science fiction movie we're living in. But isn't it weird how the year can go so slowly, but then it's over like that. I don't get it.
Well, time really is just an illusion and the universe is a flat circle. I don't even know what that means, but it's from a True Detective. True Detective first season. Well, we're off to a good start. We're already completely derailed. So Christmy already. It might be because we snuck a little something in these drinks. That's not just hot chocolate, y'all. Well, Christmas is right around the corner, so we figured we'd take this time to reminisce about all the Christmases of your what?
Your like, doesn't that mean like in the past or yester year? Yesterday year. Yeah, the Christmases of yester year. Ah, yes. Where we traveled all over the world to visit some of the most epic and delicious Christmas markets. Wait a minute. Something feels a little off, don't you think? Something is definitely missing. Maybe it's like the decor or something. I do feel like it is severely lacking. Something tells me we can do a little bit better than this. What do you think? That's That's pretty good. I think that's definitely close, man. But I still think we can do better.
All right. Too much. This might be too much. Okay, I think we got it. I think we did Yeah, these are much more manageable. Wait a minute. One thing is still missing. Oh yeah, now we're ready for a Christmas special. And with that, the Endless Adventure Christmas Extravaganza can begin. Well, we've been filming for 2 hours and we've only gotten the intro done. That was a lot of work. This might be one of our most complicated intros we've ever done.
It was an idea I just came up with yesterday and then ended up being way more work than we ever thought it would be, but that's how it goes. Hope you enjoyed it. Merry Christmas. So, if you all have been following us over the years, you know that we love a good Christmas market and usually we hop across the pond for that. And over the years, we have went to so many awesome ones all throughout Europe. We've also went to some really good ones here in the good old US of A. Mhm. So, we thought we'd take ourselves a little trip down memory lane and revisit all of the Christmas markets all over the world that we have been to and decide which one is our favorite.
I think we are going to start with uh the most recent Christmas market that we ever went to. This was last year and it was in fact the largest Christmas market in the world or at least it's in the running for it. It's hard to say, right? Confirmed though. It was large. It is the Wrath House Plats Chris Kindle Market in Vienna. Man, I really love how this one starts off. It's super high energy, but boy was this market gigantic. It took up this huge square in the middle of Vienna. There were stalls as far as the eye could see, a giant Christmas tree in the middle. They had an ice skating rink. Yeah, I think we thought we had seen the whole market and then we realized there was a whole other half we hadn't even been to.
And of course, so much delicious food everywhere. So much food. And some of the creepiest animatronic Christmas puppets. Wo! Baby, I'm just seeing us for the first time. We had very different hair back then. I had bangs. You had the short comb over. Look at it now. Oh my gosh, it has grown. So, we have the videos pulled up here. We're just kind of watching through them to refresh our memory. Of course, it starts off with our goofy hats and uh some sexual innuendo.
This is really uh Whoa. going hard up there. There you go. Did you say going hard? Mine might be a little bit on the tight side. What do you guys think? She's going hard and I'm too tight. Well, it's Vienna, so of course their sausage game is going to be completely on point. Some of the best Christmas sausage we've ever had in our lives. And the biggest and the juiciest. We're just watching our own video laughing. Well, there's something funny about little Allison with this giant Go on. Yeah. This was the market where they would light any of your drinks on fire for you.
Yeah. They put a little like a alcohol soaked sugar cube and then a torch and boom, flames. Should we do it again? Oh, we should have gotten a LITTLE SUGAR CUBE AND DONE THAT. NO. I don't know if we have enough fire extinguishers in this place. Aside from the sausage, there were so many delicious local treats to try. It was a lot of fun tasting them, but it was even funner watching Allison attempt to pronounce them. Y'all, this is Kaiser withkin roaster.vetkin This was the strangest thing we tried all night. This is called a dumpling, but what it is a piece of bread that's covered in this delicious.
Basically an entire loaf of bread, but it actually was kind of like a vanilla custardy type of sauce, but it was so faking delicious. Best thing we tried at the entire market. Oh, that is good. Woohoo. That's the best thing we've had all night. Okay, so the largest Christmas fudge. Um, it's Christmas time. The largest Christmas market in the world lived up to its name. It was huge. It was so much fun. So sprawling. All the delicious treats, all the fun toys and trinkets. And now for something completely different. We're heading to Merry Old
England. I probably shouldn't do a British accent, should I? Don't do it. Bad idea. Don't do it. We have to make a quick stop over to London because we actually found this video. It apparently it's the first Christmas market we ever went to. This was eight years ago. We were little bitty babies. Look at us. Oh my gosh. Our videos were a little different back then. I literally didn't even say which market it was. So, I don't know which one it was. But if you search Christmas markets on Google Maps in London, you'll see a bunch of different markets. So, uh, go check them all out. We had a blast.
Okay, this adventure is making me a little too embarrassed. So, we're going to hop in our Delorean, pop into the future, and go out west to bath. Of course, it starts with the epic Christmas time market montage. Oo, and some nice little slow motion shots, too. Look at you go, sir. We were actually staying in a camper van during this market tour. We were in an RV park in the town of Bath. Yeah. And of course, Alex and Emma, the Travel Beans, popped in to say hi to us. So, Bath is an ancient city that's built on top of these Roman baths that you can go and tour, which we have toured before.
Highly recommend it. But if you're there during Christmas time, definitely check out the Bath Market. It is definitely like one of the larger, more commercialized ones. It's not really a small town quaint Christmas market, but we really like it because it just has everything and it takes over so many blocks of the town and it's just in the middle of the town center with all these ancient buildings. That's what I liked about it most. It wasn't just some like setup little thing in a square. It just kind of took over the city downtown. It was very organic. It just felt like you were in the snow globe. We say that every time we're at a market, but this one really felt like a snow globe. It's funny. This cart is called Bath Sausage.
And I'm just envisioning us in a bath eating sausage, which sounds awesome. Actually, we do. Yes. I'm just realizing this is the market where you got this atrocious hat. Oh, is it? It is. Oh, I must have been really desperate to get a Christmas hat. I almost forgot. This was one of my favorite alltime foods that we found at the Christmas market. The cheese wheel pasta, y'all. Oh my god. They literally scraped out the top of a wheel of cheese, put pasta on it, and then mixed it on top of there. Oh my god. Ricklette is one thing that ugu cheese, but it's pasta made in a cheese wheel.
Oh, and it was good. Oh, yeah. This market had a stall with these delicious little fried donuts. All different types with different toppings. And uh at some point, Allison got a little weird. I'm unbuttoning my pants. I won't show you below the belt, though. This is why I love this girl. You never know what she is going to say next. Well, I am very wholesome and kind, you guys. Yeah, sure. Tada. All right, put that back. I prefer naughty Allison. Yeah, it's red. It's more festive. That's why I'm keeping it like this.
This market had some of my favorite mold wine ever, though. In other markets, it's just a big crockpot. And of course, in England, it's a cauldron where they're brewing the stuff like a witch. Beautiful arteasonal stuff. Wow. Poetic as ever. So, we started with those markets because while they were an absolute blast, they were also very, very big, very commercialized, lots of junk for sale, stuff like that. But next up, we're going to go a little bit smaller and we're going to hop across the pond. But before we do that, we should probably take a little intermission, I'm thinking.
Yes, we are out of hot chocolate. We have worn our candy canes down to these pathetic little nubs. So, I think we need a little something else to keep us feeling merry. Okay. Well, yes, that. But I was thinking something a little more substantial. Oh, like a sweet little tasty treat. Oh, yeah. Okay, let's do it. That's right, y'all. I'm going to turn this pile of ingredients into the most delicious cinnamon rolls you've ever seen. Now, I am not the best baker in the world, but I recently took a class on Craftsy, and they taught me
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What exactly is a sugar plum fairy? I've never understood that. I don't know. But it is a thing of nightmares, I think. What is a sugar plum? Okay. So, where are we? Yes, we are heading to Chicago. Ooh, nearby. Yeah, to go to a German Christmas market. This is so funny to see this after all of these European markets. There are no quaint historic buildings in sight. That's what's kind of cool about it. It's just a different vibe because it's got this German themed market, but it's right smack in the middle of just this tiny little fourb block area with huge highrises on every side.
Oh, apparently this is where I got this hat. All right. Oh, yeah. Man, I really could not have guessed. I just can't. It all blurs together. That was a fun little slow motion montage thing. I guess we're realizing we do a lot of montages. Hope you like it. Okay, this is one of my favorites. We're making ourselves laugh over here. This is so funny, y'all. I don't think we have ever sat down and done a reaction type video when we watched our old stuff.
This market definitely won on the Christmas mugs. Basically, every market usually has a Christmas mug. We still have this one in your dad's house. We do. We actually have a little collection from around the world. Did you try to shake a bird's hand? Is that what was happening there? Yeah. And I love when a market has live entertainment and then most importantly, I can use that music for the following montage after it. I feel like I can smell these nuts roasting and I also smell something else much worse.
Recollect. We have our sweet, sweet raglet. Look at this. I think this is going to be worth the wait. At reclet stall, they'll have this half of a cheese wheel under a heat lamp and then when it melts, they scrape it off into this baguette. So, it's just bread and cheese. And then they wrap it up and hand it to you and you eat it. And it is good. But it does smell very bad. It smells like straight up feet garbage, y'all. Man, look at the cheese dripping down that baguette. It looks so good. I know we just ate stuff, but I want more. And of course, it wouldn't be a Christmas market without a sausage in my mouth. Rlette is officially devoured.
So, we're on to course number two, which is German Bradworst. I'm a two sausage kind of gal. What can I say? Are you sure you can handle two? I think I'll be okay. All right, we better move on right now. So far, we'll see about the other ones, but right now, this is in the top running for me. It was so much fun. It was just so small and quaint, but it had everything. And it was just a couple blocks from the hotel we were staying at. So, we got some takeaway from the market, went home, watched Christmas movies, and ate it all.
Perfect night. It was great. For our next market, we're staying in the States and we're hopping over to New York, but for a French themed market this time. So, we went from German to France, all in the States still. Who is on his merry way? It's Santa. This was actually a pretty small market in the middle of Manhattan, but it was still super authentic. In fact, they imported these huts over from France. Yeah. At the last market, they imported the glue wine from Germany. Here they imported the whole stalls. And it makes sense because the USA is not really known for the Christmas market vibe. It's really more of a European thing. So that's a way that
they can kind of bring that over here. Also realizing that's where we got these onesies. Yes, it is. And I also forgot that this says niceish. So naughty and niceish, which sums her up mostly this naughty part. This one was really great because our friends Mark and Amanda lived in New York at the time and they popped over to hang out with us during the market. I know. Oh, I miss those fellas. They're actually living in Texas now. So, we see them from time to time. Like any Christmas market, they had a bunch of delicious goodies to drink and eat. But there was one French dish in particular that we came here to try.
This is a tarta flambe. So, it's really thin bread dough that's been rolled out and then they put this cream and soft cheese topping. They put bacon and onions. They've got this amazing fresh wood iron oven over there that they are throwing everything into. It looks super smells amazing. Super legit. Really good. That cinnamon roll was not enough, you guys. I'm getting so hungry watching this. Pizza, pasta, and of course, sausages. Man, it looks so delicious. It's this little thin pizza style thing that they would cook in an open oven and then it had all these burn marks on the bottom, but it was like an eighth of an inch
thick. And for some reason, the passers by thought I was like a sample guy. So, I gave people a bunch of samples. We're officially the sample people now. That's so funny cuz it was just a pizza we had bought and they went, "Oh, you guys, I was trying to rack my brain thinking of this other market we had went to in New York and it was in this video. We went to two markets." It's a twofer. Yeah, I remember it now. The waffles. Oh my god, the waffles. So, these were like Belgian style waffles that you put all these toppings on and man, they were delicious.
Go to Belgium just for the waffles. It is worth it. Trust us. Or if you're in New York, go to the Union Square Market. Next up, we're going to rewind the clock back about seven years and hop over to Germany. This one was actually in Berlin, and it was cute. Not quite as epic as some of the other European markets, but of course, it had a bunch of different stalls in the middle of the city. It had delicious mold wine that we drank our weight in. And of course, it wouldn't be a Christmas market without Allison stuffing sausage into her face. You got to do it. It's a Christmas tradition, I guess, at this point. But there was one thing that made this market more special than any of the
others. It had a giant tube sled. It had a lose, y'all. THAT WAS PRETTY FAST. IT'S FASTER THAN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE. WELL, that looks like a lot of fun, don't you think? Go back. I want to do that again. That is great. I don't think we mentioned where we are. We're in St. Louis. But maybe they have something like that around here. That would be fun. I'm googling right now. in my mind. Al Alexis. Alexa, what is she called? But they also get points for having a super unique drink that we hadn't tried at any Christmas market yet. And I think before we head out, we wanted to try one more drink. So, we got
ear punch. I think that's how she said punch. I punch. So, it's egg yolks, sugar, white wine, and vanilla, I believe. And they usually put whipped cream on the top, but we decided not to do that because figure this is going to be uh pretty filling enough, I think. Uh hearing those ingredients back, it doesn't sound good, but I remember it tasting fine. I'm going to put that German market in the number two slot because they had the tube thing. Oh, the tube. Gotcha. The number two slot.
The number. That's bad. How much whiskey have we drank in this one? Okay, but we have one more for y'all. It's actually an honorable mention cuz I don't know if it's technically a market, but it's in Austin and I feel like we should put something in from our home. Man, our videos were so different back then. The title is 2 million Christmas lights. We're already 3/4 of the way through the video, and we haven't even gotten to the Christmas lights. Plus, the video is only 10 minutes long, but man, it showed us doing a lot of fun stuff around the Hill Country. Yeah, it did.
All right, but Alison's got on her Christmas sweater, so you know what's coming up. Confirmed. There were 2 million Christmas lights there. It actually looked like more. There were a lot of lights, but not much else to do there. It's worth checking this out because there are so many freaking lights there and a lot of goofy quirky stuff to walk around and have fun with. But most importantly, you get Christmas vibes down in Texas, which is kind of hard to come by. Mhm. Okay, we lied, y'all. We actually have one more Christmy adventure, and that's going to happen here tonight in St. Louis.
It's going downtown. Is it downtown? Adjacent. We're going to the zoo, y'all, to see the Christmas lights. We'll see you there. Rhino alert. I want that. How do I get one of those? She's got a little rhino scooter. It's one of the coolest things I've ever seen in my entire life. You guys, we have not done anything Christmasy yet this year. And Christmas is only a few days away. So, we came down to the zoo because every year they do this. I believe it's called Wild Lights. We also got ourselves a beverage from the naughty list. Keeping with the theme, we got some spiked apple cider.
Oh yeah. After watching all of our Christmas videos, we were like, we have to have it. We need it. Yeah, we need something. I think they'll we could probably find mold wine somewhere. But more importantly, yes, I want to see some dang animals. You guys know we've seen a lot of tarantulas in Texas. He's bigger. Wa. This uh Christmas special has taken a turn. I did not expect creepy crawies to be in here. Well, y'all, I think we conquered the zoo. There's not a lot of animals out because, you know, it's freezing out. Yeah, almost all the exhibits were closed down. That's okay. We saw a lot of bugs.
You really actually come here for the lights. But you do. I think though that this is our last video for the year, y'all. We are going to take a week off, which we don't plan on doing often. It happens sometimes, but this is a planned week off. Yeah, maybe more than a week. We'll see. I think we need a little time off. I need to not be holding this camera. It's very heavy. For at least a week or two, but hopefully in that week, we will plan some really fun adventures for 2026. We got ideas, places we never been before. Hopefully, we can make it actually Oh, no. That wasn't a high five. That was just a peas thing.
Let us know some things, your favorite markets around the world, where you're going in 2026, and maybe where we should go in 2026. Yes. Leave a comment below. Yes. And with that, goodbye adventurers. We'll see you on the road. And merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
