The best and worst of our Christmas trip through the Black Forest

Christmas in the Black Forest, it will be your most precious gift for these holidays.

Before advancing on the route and on the essentials of what to see in the Black Forest at Christmas, we give you aSome clues about how this Christmas trip will be with our own experience and this post where we tell you what we liked the most and what we liked the least about our Christmas trip through the Black Forest. A post that we wrote to you within our Complete guide to travel to the Black Forest at Christmas:

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The best thing about our Christmas trip in the Black Forest has been…

• The first thing we have to highlight that we liked was finally physically meeting a family friend who lives in Germany and from whom we were able to enjoy their company. It was a pleasure to talk and share part of this route with them.
• Traveling to the Black Forest at Christmas is to see fairytale towns like Triberg, Freiburg or Gengenbach where Charly and the Chocolate Factory was filmed.
• The calm and tranquility of this region, at Christmas there is no feeling of crowds, on the contrary, we were often alone. For us the best of our trip.
• All the Christmas markets in this area are amazing, much more authentic and full of local life than those in Alsace. They are meeting places for the residents of the area, where they go to have a drink with family and friends after work. It is a totally different environment from Alsace, where the markets are pure tourists and you don't see locals.
• Eating sausages of all kinds and the kartoffenpuffer, like a potato omelette, but without eggs that is sold in German Christmas markets, very good.

More good things about the Black Forest at Christmas on our route…

• Undoubtedly the market that we liked the most and had the most Christmas magic was the one in the Ravenna gorge, the Ravennaschlucht. A beautiful pass under the aqueduct surrounded by nature, although I'll tell you about access later and it's not as easy as parking and that's it.
• The hot wine that warms the soul and hands on cold nights.
• The hot springs and impressive spas with slides for children that are in the area. We loved Titisee's.
• The snow that was in some towns. He made it a 100% Christmas trip.
• Discover that Germany has many traditions very different from the Spanish ones at Christmas and that they are the origin of Christmas traditions and markets in Alsace (formerly German).
• The parks and animal farms that are in many towns with free access and that our children loved to visit.
• The waterfalls and the Triberg Black Forest museum that we were able to visit alone, without crowds.
• That Saint Nicholas come on the night of the 5th to the 6th and bring some coins and trinkets to our little ones. What a detail and how cool to live Christmas like the Germans! Below, in things to know, I tell you who Saint Nicholas is and that Santa Claus does not come here to bring gifts... but, instead, they have the very active baby Jesus... How many things have we learned from German Christmas! How different!
• Sleep next to the Pforheim Wildpark, an impressive and large animal park with beautiful free access where you can feed the animals with food that is sold there. Very cool to be able to feed him and be so close to all the animals.
• Like big cities with beautiful Christmas markets: Stuttgart at Christmas, with its booths with highly decorated roofs with mechanisms, and Esslingen am Neckar at Christmas, with its medieval Christmas market, we have to recommend them, although this time we couldn't get there on this route. .

The worst thing about traveling to the Black Forest by motorhome at Christmas on our trip has been…

• Not speaking German anymore and not getting along well with people. They speak regular English, like the Spanish, and sometimes it was hard to understand each other completely. Good luck with Google translator and its wonder of simultaneous translation with the camera!
• That it hadn't snowed anymore. We love the snow and our idea of ​​going skiing to a ski resort in the Black Forest. The Felberg station, the highest peak in the area at 1400-odd meters, was in the plan, but due to lack of snow we couldn't go.
• That in winter there are many things closed in the area such as the open-air museum of Black Forest folklore.
• The water sources are closed in winter when there are temperatures below 0 so if you are a motorhome it is very difficult to get water outside the campsites. Also, there are few campsites open in winter.
• It is very difficult to square the entire route to be able to see the markets on the days and times they are open. It required a lot of planning and preparation in advance, and even in some places we couldn't square it. In Triberg, for example, the Christmas market and the torchlight only take place from December 25 to 31, or the Ravenna market that we liked so much is only held on weekends and you have to buy a shuttle and entrance ticket in advance to be able to go...
• For motorhomes: The Baden Baden motorhome area is very far from the center and you have to take a bus, and the Pforheim motorhome park... better not go, very ugly next to the road and also far from the center, better where we parked in the nature next to the Wildpark.
• Perhaps Pforheim, apart from the very cool Wildpark if you go with children or the medieval Christmas market that it has and the gold market with a skating rink, does not have much to see either, it was one of the ugliest cities we visited on the route, it is very industrial.
• Not having had more days to enjoy more of traveling to the Black Forest at Christmas!

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