Birmingham's one this year is smaller due to the Paradise building works & road works along Broad Street. I read somewhere that there's a reduced number of stalls in the German Market & no Craft Market this year.
Usually, we have the craft market, Birmingham Eye & Ice Rink outside the Rep, but that's a building site right now & the Eye & rink have been re-located to by Millennium Point & the craft market is having a year off.
I will take a wander through at some point as there is a stall that sells glassware that I buy a little glass animal from each year, but I probably won't buy much as the stalls are always repeats of previous years & you can't keep buying the same things for people.