One of our favorite stores around is Metro. I particularly like it, because it is a German store. So it has a lot of things from Germany, but from other places as well.

It’s over in the city and even with good traffic (which is rare) it takes well over an hour to get there, but you can get things there which can’t be found anywhere here in town. Things like butter. Or cheese. Things people in other places usually take for granted. Here we don’t.

Let’s take butter for instance: How precious can a chunk of it become when it takes so much effort to get it! Once you’ve brought it home safely, you treasure it, and everything you use it for becomes a treasure as well. Like Christmas cookies. Precious simple Christmas cookies. What are Christmas cookies without butter?

The list goes on and on … as I said: We do love Metro!

Last time I went there because I needed to get candles, and Metro always gets a fine selection of Christmas decorations and treats. Though sometimes they make me miss home a little (since I can’t afford to buy them as they are really expensive), I usually get very excited to see all the German treats. It’s what I call “eye-candy”: I can’t buy them, but surely, I can look at them. And at Metro I always get my full share of eye-candy! Yum!