Summer in the Pfalz

I apologize ahead of time as most of these pictures are of wine schorles (actually some of them are juice schorles because when we're on a bike ride we split one wine schorle and one juice schorle). But that's what summer in the Pfalz is all about - wine festivals. Below are pictures from the Eselshautfest in Mussbach, the Ungsteiner Stadtfest, the Seebacher Kerwe, the Schmitt Hoffest, and the day the wine route is closed to cars and open only for cyclists. Plus a few extra pictures from the summer. This blog post has a little bit of every thing.

I thought the Eselshautfest had the best glasses but we couldn't take any home because we biked there and had no way to carry them:



These pictures are from the Schmitt Hoffest. Each winery has a little party in its yard every summer and this was at the Schmitt winery. I had this amazing Flammkuchen that was filled with garlic. Amazing. And I saw some really fun clouds on the way there:





This was a little celebration in part of our town that had some country line dancers! One of them was wearing a skirt with American flags on it but you can't see it in the picture below unfortunately. This is the only time I've seen country line dancing in Germany! The announcer even called out all the moves in English.



Another little town festival on a gorgeous sunny day:



From the day when the street is open only for bikes. It was cloudy and rainy but we still went for a bike ride:



And the sunflowers in the vineyards by us! And some flowers from the Bad Dürkheim town park and a picture of me at a restaurant where we ate one day to break up a bike ride. Thankfully we bike to all these wine festivals to burn some of the calories we gain at them.