What are some good gift idias from germany?
Germany has lots of different regions with lots of local specialties and traditions, so there’s probably nothing that could be called “typically German”. A Bavarian Maßkrug (bier stein) from the Munich Oktoberfest probably will be welcome in every household, but to me (I’m native German btw) that would be overstyled, too much “cliché”, and I don’t have any use of it, because even as I do drink beer at home sometimes, I don’t drink it out of a one liter mug. Unfortunately you don’t write any details about the area you are going or living in. Germany has some very fine handycrafts to offer from local craftspeople, like wooden carvings and figurines, pottery, table cloth with fine stitchings or lace (most famous: the city of Plauen), or, in my area, in southeast Bavaria, it’s lead crystal (Bleikristall), that’s a special kind of glass in all colors and faceted and ornamented to a brillant appearance. For those more prone to food, now’s just the right season to send them Christstollen (the
