Like every year, we have held a little Christmas get-together with our Dickinsonians and some other members of the Dickinson-family, here in Bremen. Aside from traditional German Christmas snacks like Lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Spekulatius cookies, we’ve had some Glühwein (mulled wine) or Weihnachtspunsch (Christmas punch).

Team work: quickly assembling the houses while the icing has the right consistency.

Then we decorated gingerbread houses, like the one described in Grimm’s fairytale of Hänsel and Gretel. Which one is better?

Gingerbread house Nr. 1.

Gingerbread house Nr. 2.