This morning we decided to go for a long walk in the forest to the west of Bad Dürkheim. We have a map of the town that shows paths in the forest and a few sights to see ... my goal is to visit each of the sights on the map.
Here's the map. We live where the pen tip is pointing to on the right side, and our goal is the big red circle in the lower left of the map with the number "39" in it. It is labeled as "Schneckennudel", which I think basically means a spiral (schnecke is "snail"). We had to find it to see what it actually was!
It's not all that far to go, I'd say 5 miles roundtrip, but what's missing on that map is about 785943789643 other trails in the forest. Thankfully we had an iphone with us and google maps actually had most of the trails in it so we just had to stop a lot and find the correct trail to take. You could easily wander around in the forest for days and days completely lost and finally die a slow horrible death of dehydration or starvation or hypothermia in there. It's going to be really pretty once the leaves change though so I'm looking forward to spending more time in there this fall.
So, as expected, the "Schneckennudel" was a big spiral that you walked up in order to get a nice 360-degree view of the surrounding hills and forest:
I didn't take a picture in the direction of Ludwigshafen/Mannheim as that wasn't the pretty direction. :)
Some shots from walking through the forest. Don't let old-man-Martin fool you it was like 60 degrees out! He still set out in long underwear, t-shirt, sweater, and hat! There's definitely something wrong with him.
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