Hi Everyone! Sorry we haven't posted in a while, school work is keeping us busy. This weekend we went to the village of Bernkastel. Most people call it Bernkastel-Kues (the village across the river) for a tour and wine tasting.
It was very foggy that morning. The fog actually hung around all day. It was like a shroud and gave the village this magical quality.
Autumn has arrived in Germany. The trees are so beautiful and the villages are very quaint.
Although you can not see it, atop the hill is the castle ruins of Landshut
A view of Bernkastel village center.
When you think of Germany, you think of timbered houses. Bernkastel is the model for many postcards and little clay houses you find as souveiners. The reason the homes look small at the bottom and large at the top is because people were taxed on how big their houses were and they were measured around the bottom. So they made them smaller on the bottom to avoid large taxes.
A view across the river to Kues.
As the fog lightened, we were finally able to see Schloss Landshut.
Let the winetasting begin. A very lovely vineyard and winery, we partciapted in sampling 14 bottles of wine, a liquor made of peaches, a Rothenburg cream that puts Bailey's to shame and some moonshine. Alex looks like he was into his cups.
A view of the vineyard. They handpick all the grapes. And Arnold has thousands of acres.
Hi Everyone! Sorry we haven't posted in a while, school work is keeping us busy. This weekend we went to the village of Bernkastel. Most people call it Bernkastel-Kues (the village across the river) for a tour and wine tasting.
It was very foggy that morning. The fog actually hung around all day. It was like a shroud and gave the village this magical quality.
Autumn has arrived in Germany. The trees are so beautiful and the villages are very quaint.
Although you can not see it, atop the hill is the castle ruins of Landshut
A view of Bernkastel village center.
When you think of Germany, you think of timbered houses. Bernkastel is the model for many postcards and little clay houses you find as souveiners. The reason the homes look small at the bottom and large at the top is because people were taxed on how big their houses were and they were measured around the bottom. So they made them smaller on the bottom to avoid large taxes.
A view across the river to Kues.
As the fog lightened, we were finally able to see Schloss Landshut.
Let the winetasting begin. A very lovely vineyard and winery, we partciapted in sampling 14 bottles of wine, a liquor made of peaches, a Rothenburg cream that puts Bailey's to shame and some moonshine. Alex looks like he was into his cups.
A view of the vineyard. They handpick all the grapes. And Arnold has thousands of acres.
3 comments:
FYI--The Arnold mentioned in the last caption was the owner of the winery we visited. He was a pretty cool guy who kept our glasses full.
You look so happy!! Which I believe is more than just the wine! LOL
I'm so jealous that you are able to travel to such beautiful places and experience their culture and fun stuff that just seems to happen when doing new things.
Steven & I miss you both. Me of you more though!! You know how boys are!!!
Continue your fun adventures in Deutchland!!
xoxo,
Elizabeth
The closest we got to germany was eating at the Biergarten in Germanytown at EPCOT. Our waiter was from Munic and he told us about when he and his friends crushed the record of a local german bar for downing a 3 liter beer boot in 1min20secs, 4 drinkers.
-Steven
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