Christmas market of teddy bears

Even though Christmas is over now, I recently strolled into this hidden gem of a Christmas market. Well, not so much hidden, since it’s in the middle of Schwarzenberg Platz in Vienna. It’s more hidden in the sense that it was still almost empty around noon.

After breathing in this atmosphere for some time, I slowly realised that the lack of humans on this Christmas market is balanced out by its many soft inhabitants. For some reason, teddy bears were all over the place, making this market less Christmasy and more Beary.

But the invasion of the cuddly toys didn’t end there. Since it was already the last day of the year, many small sales booths took shop and released even more of them into the wild.

A perfect summer

I was never a summer person. Not that I prefer the cold either. Its more that spring or fall are my favorites temperature wise. Summers on the other hand got hotter and hotter over the last few years. Making it hard to bear, especially in the city, which in my case is Vienna.

But this year it was different. It rained a lot, resulting in many nights without “tropical heat”. I took this as an opportunity to capture some photos that encapsulate this special summer.

Also as a way to treasure this memory of a summer, that may as well be a misfit on the future heat to come. To look back at what we had and may not get again for a long time.