CuliVino

Last Monday was a holiday here (Pfingsten, aka Pentecost in English) and so we decided to bike down to a little festival, Culivino. Our friend Hans who owns a winery was there and it's hard to resist the opportunity to drink some of his tasty Secco (sparkling white wine). It turned out to be a 1.5-hour bike ride for us to get to CuliVino (only 15 miles and it looks flat in this area but there are actually a lot of rolling hills and the last half hour was all uphill ... any time you go west you end up going uphill). It was a beautiful day and we got to bike due south through a lot of little towns so we got to see a lot of the area. Some of the towns are really cute and they are all filled with wineries that you can stop in to and taste at. We will definitely be doing some more exploring of these towns at some point, and hopefully I will get some pictures of them. I didn't take any on this trip because we were on a mission to get to the festival. Here's Martin on one of our stops to look up directions. We do love our iphones! And our bikes!

Here are some pics from the festival. There were only 6 wineries there and some food booths. There were special cheese plates there where each piece of cheese was paired with a different wine and also chocolate plates where each chocolate had a different wine to go with it. We weren't really up for chocolate when we got there and they were out of the cheese-and-wine-pairings so we just got a regular cheese plate. We figured we biked off all those calories, right?

Here's the view, looking east out over lots more vineyards and a little town called Hambach:

There was also a castle up the hill behind me but I didn't get a picture of it. It was neat though. Sorry.

And some people enjoying some food and wine: