After more than 2 hours of walking, our group landed at the first Christmas market of the tour. We got there right at noon and were given an hour to shop but given how small it was, I was done in about 20 minutes. Unlike German Christmas markets, this one did not have any hot food stalls, just drinks and small gifts you can buy.
Lithuania has an average of 5 hours of light a day in the winter so the lights were visible against the grey sky.
This hut sold “apple cheese” which is similar to the brown cheese you can buy in Norway, where they cook the whey down. In this case, they take the brown cheese and flavor it with various fruits.
Another treat I had not seen before were these “marshmallow” gingerbread figurines.
Traditionalists can also buy the hanging gingerbread hearts with sentiments for their families and friends. As much as our granny in the stall dressed the part, the gingerbread was also mass produced and did not include nuts like the Nuremburg ones I always buy.
Lithuanians take hot chocolate to a new level, including black chocolate and cherry flavored.
This was very much a PG, child friendly market with Glugwein at the very edges of the market, away from the school groups wandering through as a class trip.