{"id":24050,"date":"2016-11-01T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/?p=24050"},"modified":"2016-11-01T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T07:14:12","slug":"the-sights-and-smells-of-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/the-sights-and-smells-of-the-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"The sights and  smells of the holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I<\/span><span class=\"s1\">f there\u2019s one consolation to the long dark nights and short gloomy days of autumn, it\u2019s that you know Christmas is just around the corner. It\u2019s pretty easy to get yourself in the holiday spirit in November. There is no cosier month! Put on your warmest jumper and head to one of the upcoming Christmas markets. Enjoy a concert. And be sure to try some traditional Estonian Christmas food, like blood sausage and sauerkraut in Town Hall Square or at one of the many Estonian restaurants serving holiday food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Wandering the streets of Tallinn\u2019s Old Town in November, you\u2019re bound to come across the warm, spiced smell of mulled wine, or &#8220;gl\u00f6gg&#8221;, wafting from one of the city\u2019s many caf\u00e9s. There are many different recipes for this festive drink, but it\u2019s usually made with red wine and a combination of spices and dried fruit. Every country seems to have their version of the drink. In addition to mulled wine, the English also enjoy mulled cider during the winter months. Spices used are cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. The Germans and Austrians enjoy Gl\u00fchwein during the Christmas holidays, adding cinnamon, cloves, star anise, citrus peel, and sometimes vanilla to the red wine. Blueberry wine or cherry wine sometimes replaces the red wine, and sometimes even rum is added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Mulled wine, Christmas concerts, Christmas markets and some great food is all you need to get you through the dark months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Happy travels!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\"><b>Kristina Lupp,<br \/>\n<\/b>Editor-in-chief<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there\u2019s one consolation to the long dark nights and short gloomy days of autumn, it\u2019s that you know Christmas &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editorial"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}