Don't get too excited, Frankenstein is a small town in the hills to the west of Bad Dürkheim. Once I learned that there was a town named Frankenstein only a 20ish minute drive away from us, I had to go see it. Of course since it's summer we instead drove most of the way there and then hiked the rest of the way to it. Martin planned out a nice little hike in the forest that took us in a big loop to a restaurant on Lake Isenach and then up to Frankenstein and back to our car. 10 miles total, but we made it 11 with wrong turns ... we always take at least a few wrong turns the forests here have so many trails in them it's easy to go the wrong way.
So, some pictures. Lots of dense forest and some streams.
The restaurant on Lake Isenach. You could rent boats here to hang out on the lake in plus there was a big playground for the kids to entertain themselves.
Back into the forest! The picture on the right below is a house in the middle of the forest that used to be where the glass blower lived.
The itty bitty town of Frankenstein. Pretty much just a busy road with a few houses on each side of it. And a castle! Well, castle ruins.
After we finished the hike we went back to Lake Isenach for a post-hike wine schorle. We didn't get a schorle earlier in the hike because we passed the restaurant at like 10:30 in the morning and weren't hungry or thirsty yet.
Mmmmmm ... dirt. At least my blisters from two weeks ago have finally healed! And since I bought new hiking shoes to use today, I didn't get any new blisters so it was a very successful hike.
