What a nice surprise I had when I left the train in Hamburg.  Found this book with a nice little note of the former owner saying she is leaving the book for another reader and wishes a merry x-mas.

And it came just in time for Day 11 of the Penguin Book-a-Day-Challenge as I did not have a Christmas Classic at hand that I could have take a photo, not well prepared but thanks to Stephanie I not only have a picture for the challenge but also a book filled with some great Christmas stories from Paul Auster to Erich Kästner, Siegfried Lenz to Marie Luise Kaschnitz and more.

Thanks again Stephanie – you certainly put me in the Christmas spirit 🙂