Celtic Tours and The Christmas Markets

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Speaker 2 (00:52):
Michelson again, and I am here with the lovely Diana
from Celtic Tours and we aresitting here outside sweating
because it's middle of summer.
But what I do like is thatwe're going to start talking
about Christmas.
It's the middle of summer 2025,and we need to talk Christmas
2025.
My favorite tense, the E.

(01:12):
Christmas is very, veryexciting.
I love Christmas.
Yes, christmas is wonderful,and a lot of people don't
realize that Celtic tourists canactually take you to several
different countries for theirChristmas markets.
No, and we're going to talkabout them today.
One of the markets which kindof drew me was Poland.

(01:35):
You said we can do Christmasmarkets in Poland.
We do.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
We do Christmas markets in Poland.
Oh wow, I think this is one ofour first Christmas markets in
Poland.
It's a six-night escort andtour.
Six-night escort and tour andwe have four different dates
that we do.
Oh wow, what are the dates?
It's November the 29th and thenwe have two of those.
It's actually two tours forNovember 29th and then we have

(02:03):
two tours for December, the 6th.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
So right in the heart of the holidays, right in the
heart of the holidays, I kind oflike to do November 29th.
That's kind of Thanksgivingtime.
You can do other fun things,make new memories for the
holidays.
And it's going to Warsaw andKrakow, warsaw and Krakow,
warsaw and Krakow.
Okay, now, in this time framelike I said, it's the middle of

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summer here, 2025.
If you want to get in for theseChristmas markets, you have to
kind of look now.
You have to buy into it now,get your reservations now.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
You do you do?
Because these will sell outquickly.
I can tell you that thedeposits are already starting to
book, they're already startingto sell out Wonderful, and so
they will sell out very, veryquickly.
Because once these particulartours, these two tours, are sold
out, they're going to be goneand the price point is amazing

(03:00):
$1,499 per person.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
That's it.
That's it.
$1,499 per person.
That's it.
That's it.
$1,499 per person for the sixthnight to Poland and when you go
there $1,499, you're getting ahotel stay First class, First
class, First class hotels.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
I mean amazing accommodations.
And let me just say that itdoes include private facilities,
because and the reason why wesay that?

Speaker 2 (03:27):
because not a lot of hotels in Poland include private
facilities- Now you want toexplain private facilities to
some of our listeners.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Bathroom.
Private facilities meansprivate bathrooms in your hotels
, and I know that that doesn'tmean a lot, you know, because
everybody assumes, oh yeah,you're going to get a hotel with
a bathroom in it.
But in Poland sometimes you dohave a shared bathroom, right.
So you will get a privatebathroom.
So you're going to get a hotelwith your private bathroom, and
it is a first-classaccommodation.
So you're also going to get, ofcourse, the market.

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You're going to get round-triptransfers, you're going to get
an escorted tour, your breakfastday lead, you're going to have
your whisper technology, youknow where.
You're going to have your tourguide who's going to explain
everything.
So it's actually a tour mixedand combined with the market,
with the markets, exactly,exactly.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Can you give us an example of what an excursion?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
would be yeah, of course, of course.
So your local guide is actuallygoing to go ahead and point out
different Polish traditions asthey're taking you through the
Christmas markets.
They're going to walk youthrough and they're going to
tell you all of the differenttraditions.
They're going to tell you aboutthe residencies, the royal
gardens and the lights, thecastles there that they have,

(04:38):
then about the 700-year-oldcapital of Poland.
There's just so much history inPoland.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
They're combining the history with the holiday season
, exactly, exactly.

Speaker 3 (04:52):
They're also going to tell you about the Saxon
gardens and the tomb of theunknown soldier, the monuments
to the heroes of the Warsawghettos.
Again, there's just so muchhistory that's going to go along
with not just the Christmasmarkets themselves.
So you're going to get thesetours, you're going to get the
markets, you're going to get, ofcourse, the accommodations.

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It's an amazing six days that'sgoing to be filled with just so
much history and an amazingChristmas spirit, and it's
something that people don'trealize.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
You know, when you think Christmas morning, of
course you think Germany, butyou never think Poland.
No, so Poland is there with allthese beautiful things, and you
said it's Warsaw and Krakow.
Warsaw and Krakow, that'sfabulous, warsaw and Krakow.
And again you're sayingNovember 29th.
They have two tours going thatday, and also December 6th.
How many are going on toDecember 6th?

(05:47):
Two, there's two, so you got atotal of four tours.
And again, this is the middleof summer, right now, 2025.
If you want to get in and seethe majesty of Poland during the
holiday season, I stronglyrecommend people look at it now,
correct, make your reservationsnow, because if you wait a

(06:07):
month it may not be valid.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
And that'll be sad.
And this is a perfect becauseit's six nights.
It's a perfect week, you know,because not a lot of people get
more than a week off, you know,for a vacation.
So you're looking at a perfectweek vacation.
You'll go ahead and travelthere the night before, Right,
and then you'll go ahead andstart your tour.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Now, where do you fly in?

Speaker 3 (06:30):
You'll actually go ahead and fly into Warsaw.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Warsaw Got it.
Yep, now again, can Celtictours arrange airfare?
Yes, yes, okay.
So airfare can be added on Yep.
Yep, which is nice, Right, soairfare can be added on yeah,
which is nice.
And you said again you know,the hotels are going to have
bathrooms, oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
That's very important and a lot of people don't
realize how important that is,especially in Poland.
Again, a lot of the hotels theyjust do have shared bathrooms,
Shared bathrooms.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
A lot of people don't realize when they're going
overseas.
Sometimes they have to look atthis.
Correct.
But now they're going to havetheir own bathroom, which is
nice.
People need to know that.
But you know, people don'tthink Celtic tours for Christmas
market no, they don't.
But they actually can help youget to see some of these
different Christmas markets.

(07:17):
We have more and there's morecoming.
We have more, so what else do?

Speaker 3 (07:21):
we have Well, we also do a Christmas market in Prague
, vienna and Budapest.
This is a seven-day tour.
We actually call the capitals acolored empire and this
particular tour.
We have several dates availablefor the market.
Okay, and what are those datesavailable?

Speaker 2 (07:41):
for a day tour for the market, okay, and what are
those dates?

Speaker 3 (07:44):
So this particular tour is an actual tour of all of
the capital.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Okay, so they're mixing the tourism with the
Christmas markets.
So that's kind of a nice thing,correct, lena's?
So now again, we're talkingyou're in Prague, vienna,
budapest, the Hamburg Empire.
You're talking Christmas tours,you're talking touring the area

(08:15):
.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
So tell me how many tours you said there's more
tours, four dates, four datesfor this one, yeah, so there's
November 30th, okay, andDecember 7th Again two tours for
both of those dates November30th and December 7th.
Again two tours for both ofthose dates November 30th and
December 7th.
So for this particular tour,again first class accommodations

(08:36):
with private facilities.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Private facilities.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
You have a welcome dinner, a farewell dinner.
You have transfers to and fromthe airport.
You're going to visit theChristmas markets.
You'll also have a professionaltour director driver.
You'll have your motor coach.
You'll start in Budapest and itwill actually end in Prague.

(09:01):
So you will fly into Budapestand then you will actually leave
from Prague.
So it's seven nights, eightdays, Again, amazing, amazing
tour.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now you say they have transfers from the airport,
even if you don't do CelticTour's air.

Speaker 3 (09:19):
Oh yeah, of course, if we do our air to get our
transfers.

Speaker 2 (09:24):
That's very nice, because some companies say you
have to do their air in order toget their transfers.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
No, not at all.
You want to book your own air?
Please feel free, absolutelyOkay.
The only thing that we ask withour transfers is that make sure
that you do come in on the daythe tour starts Right.
So if the tour is starting onNovember 30th, make sure that
your transfer is starting on theday of the 30th.
Now I have a question.

Speaker 2 (09:50):
If they want to come in beforehand, will Celtic Tours
be able to accommodate them byputting something together for a
pre or post.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
We can go ahead and do a pre and post.
Without a doubt.
Will they be able to use ourtransfer for this particular
tour Right and plug in the tour?
No, we'll have to do a separatetransfer for them.
So a lot of people like to comein a day before because of the
jet lag.
Yeah, so they like to come in aday before.
So we can go ahead and book thehotel room a day before, we can

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go ahead and get the transferfor them, or we can book a train
for them.
You know, we can book all ofthat for them, or you can book
tours.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, we can book an interest tour so if they want to
see something in advance of it.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Because I highly recommend don't go to sleep as
soon as you get there.
You want to stay awake allnight.
If you go to sleep, you'regoing to be doing better the
next day as well.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
So you definitely want to do is you don't want to
go to bed when you get in.
No, not at all, not at all.
So now we're talking Prague,budapest, vienna.
You're flying into Budapest.
I can imagine the Christmasmarkets in Vienna.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah, well, that's where it started.
That's where the Christmasmarkets started in Austria.
Now, of course, you visitStephen's Cathedral, right,
you'll get all of the history ofthe Hofbrau Palace and, of
course, the amusement park there.
And then you get to visit notjust one of the Christmas
markets but many of theChristmas markets there in

(11:20):
Vienna and the beauty, just theillumination, of the Christmas
markets there in Vienna, because, again, that's where it all
started.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
That's where it began .

Speaker 3 (11:29):
That's where all those Christmas markets started
was in Vienna Now.

Speaker 2 (11:33):
I always tell people at these Christmas markets
there's lots of nibbles and bitsthat you can eat.
Yeah, and try Hot wine Ciderball.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Fueled wine, that's one.
And Vienna is known Fueled wine, yes, wine, and Vienna is known
as the city of waltz.
So the music, and there's somuch.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
It's just such a beautiful, beautiful city and
could you imagine just a lightsnowfall wandering around?
It makes it feel holiday.

Speaker 3 (12:04):
Oh, the pastry.
To get a hot chocolate with apastry and do some shopping with
the snow falling, if you'relucky enough, and all of the
music playing.
It's such a beautiful,beautiful picnic.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
And again, celtic Tours is putting all of this
together for them.
Yeah, so all they basicallyhave to do is pack down on a
plane and be there.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
Yeah, yeah, and we do it all, we will take care of
all of it for them, yeah, andagain.

Speaker 2 (12:30):
You supply breakfast every morning.
We do, and people don't realizethat could be a good thing.
Have your breakfast, go out andstart walking around and then,
while you're nibbling on thosewonderful holiday free.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
Right before the tour starts, because you know every
day we do have a tour for you.
You would go ahead and meetyour tour guide.
Then we do a tour.
For example, in Prague, we'lltake you to the Old Town Square,
where we take you to the famousclock they have there, or the
Jewish Quarter, st Nicholas'Church, the Charles Bridge.

(13:04):
There's so much, there's somuch, there's so much that we
want to show you and that wewant to take you St George's
Basilica, oh, wow, yeah, theGolden Lane there in Prague.
There's just so much that wewant to take you to see.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
Now a question for you is in the Budapest, vienna,
prague events.
Is it all at one hotel?

Speaker 3 (13:28):
You stay at the one hotel, no, no, you actually go
to different hotels Verydifferent hotels You're going to
go to different hotels andagain they don't have to worry
about their luggage.
No, everything, everything.
We will go ahead and takeeverything.
Our guide will go ahead andtake your luggage.
They'll leave it for you, right, they'll make sure it gets into
your room.
You know, that's great, andthen all you got to do is go

(13:49):
ahead and put it outside thedoor and then when it goes back
on the motorcoach, and then thenext place you go, you know?
So, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
It's motorcoach driven.
We're going from place to placevia motorcoach.
Yep, yep.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
And they don't have to worry about a bathroom
because seven's in the room.
And so for this particularplace, because it is 7-9, you're
actually you're two nights inthe first location.
So you're two nights inBudapest.
Okay, Then you're going to betwo nights in Vienna and then
three nights in Prague.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Okay, so they would fly into Budapest and fly back
out via Prague, correct, okay?
Yep, that's wonderful.
And that's a lot in seven days,or eight days, seven nights, so
that's a lot.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
Now, how much is this starting out at?
So this one believe it or not.
Starting at the price it's notstarty, but the price is $2,049
for November, wow, and thenDecember is a little bit high
and the December is $2,199, andthat's just because of the
season.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Right, it's seasonal, yeah but still for everything
that they're getting.
They're hearing Budapest,vienna, prague.
They're hearing all their meals.
They're getting all theirhotels.
They're getting motorco service.
They're getting transfers,their meals, they're getting all
their hotels.
They're getting motorco service.
They're getting transfers fromthe airport.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
And tours.
Yeah, Everything you'veincluded.
Yeah, everything, EveryFabulous, and you have again a
couple dinners.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
And a few dinners, Because you come here dinner, I
hope you had a great time dinner.
Exactly A couple dinners, andthen, of course, bring extra
shopping.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
Oh, please, yes, Christmas markets.
You definitely want to do someshopping Now.
I do know there's a lot oflocations there that will ship
home for you.
Wonderful, yeah, that I do know, because I have been to a
couple of Christmas markets inGermany.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
And I always advise people ship it home.
You don't want to be luggingall that stuff on the plane.
For sure it makes it easier.
Yes, you know, this is not 1910.
It depends.
So they do have places that youcan go and ship, correct?

Speaker 3 (15:57):
Speaking of Germany, right, we have one more
Christmas market to talk about.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
One more.
Oh my gosh, so now?
So wait, a second.
Let's recap.
We went to Poland yeah, thatwas one of your market.
We're now.
The second one was Budapest,vienna and Prague, correct, and
now we?

Speaker 3 (16:14):
last Christmas market that we have.
This is a six-night, againescorted tour, okay, and it will
actually start in Slovenia andin Germany, in Munich, in Munich

(16:38):
.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah, in Munich.
No, munich, yeah, munich Munich.
Yes, it's the Americans thatcall it Munich Munich.
Now tell me a little bit aboutSlovenia.
What are they going to seethere?

Speaker 3 (16:50):
So it will actually start in Fom and go by Unsayin'
Us right.
And this one.
There's only one date for thisone.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
Only one date for this in particular tour Correct,
correct.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
This is the December 5th day, but there are two tours
, okay.
However, there's two differentprices.
If you get in on the first tour, it's $1,949.
Okay, the second tour will be$2,099.
So book early so that you canget the lower price.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
Right and getting on the first tour.

Speaker 3 (17:28):
Now they're both on the same day, Both on the same
day, correct, but it is apopular tour and since we only
have one Danes Right you want tomake sure that you get in on
the early tour.
Are there going to be two motorcoaches?
Yes, yes, that's the reason whywe do it this way.
Yeah, there's two motor coaches.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Okay, Now again, are they going to be offered
breakfast every day?

Speaker 3 (17:48):
Yes, there's breakfast.
Daily Transfers from the hotelTransfer Transfer.

Speaker 2 (17:52):
Correct, correct.
So they're getting thatEscorted, correct, first class
hotel, first class hotel Withbathrooms.
And now we're talking they'relanding in Sweden, correct, in
Skarabag, okay, and then againthe handy mode of coaching to

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these other countries, correct.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
That's correct.
So they will have a welcomedinner, okay, on the very, very
first day, and then the next day, of course, they meet their
tour guide and then they'regoing to do a St Mark's church
and St Catherine's church andagain just a complete tour, and
they're going to go all over theplace.
Do they have Christmas marketsthere too?

(18:38):
Of course they do.
That's why they're going.
Of course they do.
That's why they're going, ofcourse.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
So in each country, I'm assuming it's going to have
different handmade goods?
Oh yeah, different styles,correct?
Different cultures of thecountries will show through on
these handmade items.
Yes, absolutely.
What a great gift that would beto bring back for the holiday
would be one of these handmadeitems from any of these markets.

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Now, from Slovenia, we're goingover to Croatia, correct?
So now in Croatia, what are wegoing?

Speaker 3 (19:10):
to be doing.
So we're going to go ahead andagain go to breakfast.
So we're going to be staying.
Let me just tell you how manynights we're going to be staying
.
So first we're going to staytwo nights at the Sheraton, and
then we're going to be stayingthree nights, and then in
Germany, we're going to bestaying two nights.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Cool, okay.
So two, three and two, soyou're going to be three nights
in Croatia Right now.
I know there's a lot of peopleover in Croatia.
It's a very popular area, rightnow.
It is.
It is Very, very popular area.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
So what are they here to see in Croatia?
So, in Croatia, taking a look.
One moment I'm going to take alook at the tour here.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
So, while you're pulling up all this information
to tell me about it, you knowwhat a great way to create new
holiday traditions with yourfamily Going over to see some of
these.
I mean, if you can't do Poland,maybe you can do the other one.
You can go to Vienna and Pragueand Budapest.
If you can't do there, maybeyou can go over to this one that
we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (20:13):
I mean, yeah, you know, I've never been to Croatia
, so this would be something Iwould absolutely love to do is
go to Poland.
And it's very popular right now, and one of the things that
I've heard about is the famousDragon Bridge.

Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yes, which?

Speaker 2 (20:24):
is have you heard of it?
I've heard of it, I've heard ofit.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
I've never been, and this is something that they're
actually going to do.
They're going to see the DragonBridge and of course do the
Christmas markets there as well,and they'll going to go to the
famous I'm going to butcher thisname of the town that they're

(20:47):
going to, but it's a famouscastle there in the city, Okay,
and of course there's going tobe all kinds of lively music and
food and street, you know, foodand shopping, because it's all
part of the Christmas market andeverything.
So they're going to be spendingthe entire day there with the
history and again viewing therecords.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
It's kind of nice because you have two days in one
area, three days in another,two days in another, so you're
not running from country tocountry in one day, so you kind
of get time to take a breath, ofcourse.

Speaker 3 (21:16):
Yeah, it's very relaxing.
It's very, very relaxing.
It's not one of thosefast-paced tours.
It's not where, okay, we've gotto go here, we've got to go
here, we've got to go here.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
It's very relaxing and you want to be able to do
that, particularly during theholiday season, and again, we're
talking holiday season, whereme and Diana are chit-chatting
here sitting in the summer heat.
It's mid-summer, but it's timeto make these reservations
because we don't have that manytours going.
We only have a few, and theseare specialized tours focusing

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on the Christmas markets ofthese countries, and some of
them you may not have even heardof Das Eid.
You know now this way Slovenia,croatia and Germany.
So now we're going to move intoGermany, where you said it's
Munich.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Munich.
It's Munich or München.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
München.
I have to spell it in my headfirst München sounds like
M-U-N-C-H-I-N.
Yeah, so we have München.
For us Americans, munich, whichis a very big city yeah, it's a
is a very big city.

Speaker 3 (22:21):
Yeah.
It's a large city, it's a very,very large city and Germany is
also known for a lot ofChristmas.
It is the city of Mozart aswell.
Mozart.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
What's included?

Speaker 3 (22:34):
in Munich.
Well, of course, because it isthe city of Mozart and the
birthplace of Mozart, you'regoing to visit the Silent Night
Chapel, wow.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
I don't actually know how to sing Silent Night in
German.
I had to do that in school.
I did too.

Speaker 3 (22:53):
But that would be really cool.
Yeah, and in the afternoon ofcourse you're going to take time
to actually stroll theChristmas markets there.
And of course you know Munichis known for Oktoberfest.
Even though Oktoberfest isn'tgoing on at the Hofbrauhaus, you
want to go visit theHofbrauhaus and it becomes a

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very, very popular place tovisit.
So if you get a chance you wantto go there and visit the Alp
Braha.
So you really have time to kindof visit Munich and explore.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
So that's another thing, that Celtic tours yeah.

Speaker 3 (23:27):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (23:27):
That's another thing that Celtic tours allows for.
It allows you some free time.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
So that makes it nice.
So they mix the tourism withsome free time, right, and these
particular tours.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
There is a lot of exploring, because you were
exploring the markets, so thereis a lot of exploring.
And then you have actuallydinner at a local restaurant
that evening, oh yum.
So, yeah, a chance to Germanfood.
Yeah, german nice party, germanfood, that'll be good.
But then the very, very nextday you're going to visit the
state capital of Bavaria andyou're going to actually visit a
castle, actually get to viewone of the castles there, which

(24:03):
is very, very nice because itwas a part of the monarchy of
Bavaria, right, and there's alittle bit of a history of that
Maximilian and Leopold and tokind of learn a little bit about
the history of that.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's why the tour guide is there, because they
know the area, they know what'shappening.
They can give you the history,which makes it fun.
A lot of times when you're onthese tours it helps to know
that because it's like, oh, wow,you know, you see something and
you think, oh, that lookspretty.
But then when you find out thehistory behind it, it makes it
exciting.
And now you're mixing it withthe holiday season and Christmas

(24:39):
shopping.
It just brings it all fullcircle.
Yeah, now a lot of people aregoing to say, okay, we're going
over to Poland and to Sloveniaor Germany or Budapest during
November, december.
What do I wear?
So I'm going to say, I'm goingto say hat for layers.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
Absolutely, absolutely.
So I'm going to say, and I telleverybody this, and especially,
obviously, travel advisor.
You know I ask for traveladvisor but as an ex-travel
advisor myself, I always telleverybody check the weather a
week before.
I'll always check the weather aweek before.
But you know this is winter,it's winter in Europe.
So you're definitely going towant a layer, definitely want a

(25:19):
layer.
Yes, Definitely want to layer.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yes, you have to realize, and there are coats
that you can buy that can folddown, smash down into very tiny,
tiny little things.
Yeah, I mean, my daughter has acoat that looks like it's for
an Eskimo.
Yeah, but she can fold thatdown into like a three by three.

Speaker 3 (25:37):
It's very, very mushable, yeah, and you can get
something that's waterproof aswell, you know, because if it
does snow it's not going to rainso much, but if it does snow,
you want to make sure that it'swaterproof it is the holiday.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
This whole season, man, it's a little chilly, you
know, so you want to be able,but sometimes, just like here in
the United States, you know,new York could be very warm in
November, so could it beoverseas, but can you imagine?

Speaker 3 (26:04):
I mean, I'm a Florida , right.
You know I grew up here inFlorida, but can you imagine
being over in Europe when it'ssnowing and just visiting those
Christmas markets?

Speaker 2 (26:12):
It just makes it come full circle.

Speaker 3 (26:14):
It's beautiful Mule wine and you know, just walking
the markets when it's nice andcold, Just a beautiful,
beautiful experience and Ialways recommend what a great
way to get Christmas gifts andstart new Christmas traditions.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
Oh, yeah.
Even with the little ones.
Yeah, because little ones lovethe holiday, and it's all.
You know.
You're in Germany, it's allabout Santa Claus.
You know it's all about StLudwig.
Yeah, you're seeing, it's allabout St Ludwig.
You're seeing a lot of castles.
We're seeing a lot of churchesall celebrating the holidays, so
they're probably all decoratedgorgeously.
So this is something we need towant to do Again.

(26:52):
Diana and I are sitting here inthe middle of summer talking
about Christmas.
We see it all on televisionChristmas in July.
It is time now to make theseplans, and Celtic Clures is not
only Ireland and Scotland andEngland.
It can bring you to Poland, itcan bring you to Germany, it can

(27:12):
bring you to Budapest for theseChristmas holiday traditions.
Yes, well, again, thank you,diana, for joining us today.
Love, thank you Now.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
I got a little Christmas shopping today.
I know it was Christmas in July.
Thanks so much, Z.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, that's it for today's episode of the Z
Michelson Travel Podcast.
I hope you enjoyed our journeyand found some new inspiration
for your next adventure.
Remember, the world is full ofstories and sometimes all it
takes is a plane ticket to startyour own adventure.
If you loved today's episode,be sure to tune in every week

(27:58):
and don't forget to share yourfavorite travel moments with me
on social media.
I'd really love to hear aboutwhere you're headed to next.
So, until next time, keepexploring, keep discovering and,
as always, keep traveling withyour heart wide open.
I'm Zee Michelson and I'll seeyou on the next adventure.