Stadtfest

May 16-20 is the town festival in Bad Dürkheim. We wandered down there last night for dinner and drinks. It's just a bunch of tents set up on the town square, serving wine and food. There's also a stage where a band plays at 8pm each evening.

Here are our meals. I had some pork with Tuscan-spiced pork meatloaf on top of it, ratatouille, and gnocchi. It was awesome but too much for me to finish. Martin had some potatoes, mushrooms, and beef with onions:

We tried some wine at that tent too but didn't like what we ordered that much. Cross that winery off the list! Here's a pic of some of the tables and tents:

We moved on to another tent where Martin got a schoppen glass of wine. These half-liter glasses usually hold 50% sparkling water and 50% wine but they will also fill them with 50% sparkling wine and 50% wine if you want. Everybody drinks schoppen glasses of wine around here. You couldn't even order wine in a smaller amount than a quarter liter! Which is so different from Zürich where you had to order by tenths of a liter and you had to pay twice as much for a tenth of a liter as you pay for a quarter liter here:

We stole this glass (they charge you 2 euros per glass, which you get back when you return them). So now we can mix our own schoppen glasses of wine/water or wine/wine:

No beer in sight! Of course you can order beer at the bars here or buy it at the grocery store but there was only wine available at the festival tents.