To celebrate the season, I’m sharing clips, extras, and behind-the-scenes notes from my classic one-hour special, “Rick Steves’ European Christmas.” Germany’s grandest Christmas market, Nürnberg's Christkindlesmarkt, comes complete with an angelic Christkind, dressed in gold and played by a real-life teenage girl. After we filmed her show before an awestruck crowd of German kids, we were invited to a private audience with her. We felt like paparazzi trailing some teenage heartthrob. In this clip

To celebrate the season, I’m sharing clips, extras, and behind-the-scenes notes from my classic one-hour special, “Rick Steves’ European Christmas” — and when it comes to traditional holiday images, Germany’s Bavaria is the heartland. In this clip, we savor classic holiday themes: glittering trees, old-time carols, and colorful Christmas markets. Even though I was determined to limit the shopping focus in the show, I couldn’t help but be impressed by Germany’s grandest Christmas market, in Nürnb