On Sunday Martin and I went for a nice long walk in the hills to the west of Bad Dürkheim (it's *very* hilly in that direction, and completely flat to the east). There is a tower that we can see from our apartment that we wandered up to the top of. It's called Flaggenturm and this is a view of it from my office in our apartment (it's on the very top of the hill):
It's only a 15 minute walk from our apartment but from it you get a great view of all the surrounding vineyards. The tall white building in the left of the photo is our apartment building. Sorry it was cloudy when we started out on our walk so these pictures aren't all that breathtaking. I would like to add that we drank some wine that came from the vineyards right outside our apartment ... the white wine and sparkling white wine were very good ... we like to eat and drink local. :)
Here's a view of Bad Dürkheim from the top of the tower:
Next we walked to the ruins of an old monastery, Klosterruine Limburgh. Apparently the Limburgh family built this huge monastery and filled it with monks to pray that their family would be prosperous. I'm not sure how well it worked. Here are some pics of the ruins. They're easily visible from the vineyards right outside our front door:
It looks like events or concerts are held in here, there's a stage behind me in this picture:
And, two hours later, we had finished our walk.
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