Gingerbread-house village 2018

Hi Dears, 

Christmas is on the corner, and it means only one thing --> we can eat as many gingerbreads as we can shamelessly, as we will start the diet, anyway on New Year's Day, right? 

Oh yeah. 

But now, I won't just eat them, I participated again, for the third time in a wonderful event here in Budapest, where we bake and share our own gingerbread houses. We place them together in an exhibition hall in the Bálna Shopping Mall, and we build a magical gingerbread-house village again. Every building has its unique style, and we can see fantastic ideas year-by-year. I am very excited to see this year's opening.

The exhibition will be open from 22-Dec until the end of February, except the days of Christmas, and on New Year's Day.

You can check their site here:

https://www.mezeskalacsvaros.hu/

Here in the post I show my gingerbread house, and some sneak-peeks of the "placing-event" of the house.

If you are interested in my previous year's creations click here:

Gru's and the Minion's house 

http://hungarianfoodguide.blogspot.com/2017/01/baking-grus-house-with-minions.html

Pretty snowy gingerbread-house

http://hungarianfoodguide.blogspot.com/2015/11/gingy-house-project.html

Gingies - How to make gingerbreads?

I tried many gingerbread recepies, I also invented some, and this is one appealed to me the most. The cookies are soft, and yummy. This year I will bake them again! :)

Visiting the biggest Christmas fair in Budapest

I've visited the Christmas fair in Vörösmarty square last night. I was curious about it, I like visiting it every year, it always brings me the Christmas spirit, and this time wasn't an exception, either. So let's see what shall we find there this year! :)

This is the 14th time, that this fair is organised, so we can say, that this is quite a new custom here. Originally this came from Vienna, especially from queen Maria Teresa, who has the first Christmas tree in our country.  But every time it's worth going and looking this fair, the atmosphere is fantastic. :)

Tram 2 - among the 10 most beautiful tramways!

According to the new book of National Geographic - Tours of a Lifetime 2012 - travelers selected the 10 most beautiful tramways of the WORLD! :)

Our favourite tram, Tram number 2 is the 7th in the list! :) 
We are really proud of it, I think that it worth the title. I'm travelling by that every single day when I go to my University. 

When You travel by that , You can see the Danube, with the view of one of the UNESCO World Heritage - the riverbanks with the Castle of Buda, the Gellérthill, the Matthias church, and the Pest side, where it circulates , the Academy of Siences, our biggest hotels -Gresham Palace, Mariott, Inter Continental... And the last but not least the Paraliment (the  second biggest Parlaiment of Europe, the first is in Great- Britain)

I love it the most at night, with the manifique lights.

What is even prettier than that?
The Christmas Tram 2 - with extra decoration! It's like a dream! :)

(this photo is from: http://www.knaurek.hu/art/villamosS.jpg)