Travelog post for: Eebee

In Germany most families celebrate Christmas on the 24th of December, Christmas Eve. On that day the shops are mostly open until midday and many offices are also open for half a day. The Christmas Days, 25th & 26th of December are holidays: no shops are open and only people in emergency services have to work.
We started out the celebrations with "Kaffee & Kuchen" as they say here, meaning coffee and cake, even if you have tea or cookies instead.

The advent wreaths are in use and many older people have self-embroidered table clothes for holidays.

Here's an old nativity set. Some people leave out baby Jesus until this night and only add him to the scene now.

After dinner everybody gets to open some presents and many people go to midnight mass.