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Visitors can ride the Christmas carousel for free before hitting the food stands, which will be serving German bratwurst and schnitzel, pierogies, roasted nuts; comforting drinks like Glühwein, a hot mulled wine; and other tasty treats.

But fast forward a few months and, as lights sparkle in the Christmas markets, there is a sense of tentative optimism in the Glühwein spiced air.

In Poland it's called grzane wino and in Germany it is gluhwein, which both directly translate to mulled wine.

Stable’s hot drinks — gluhwein all around! — helped ward off the chill, too.

Even the scientific committee advising the Belgian government had not asked for the culture industry closures, leaving virologist Marc Van Ranst to ponder that in Belgium “gluhwein beat culture.”