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| | Go Christmas market-ing - The Boston Globe |
 | | The markets begin in November and continue to just before Christmas, an off-season period when air fares and hotel rates tend to be about as low as they get. |
 | | Many countries have Christmas markets, but Germany has the most, as well as the largest and oldest, and they are in big bustling cities as well as tiny medieval villages. |
 | | Grand Circle's nine-day river cruise, Christmas Markets Along the Rhine, departs Nov. 28 and Dec. 8 and includes land excursions in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as four German cities: Dusseldorf, Cologne, Rudesheim, and Mainz. |
| www.boston.com /travel/articles/2004/11/07/go_christmas_market_ing (723 words) |
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