Ruedesheim - Wine country

Relos (and a few fake ones) came for a genuine German breakfast this morning. A great spread, and the best part was the thin slices of chocolate you eat on plain white freshly baked rolls. Did not sound so good when they first mentioned it, but was fabulous. Even the dark chocolate was nice with a smear of the dark berry jam on the bread!

After this Lynda, Carl, Annemarie and I headed off to the wine country. Along the way I saw a sign to Schwartz Bad. I told Lynda this was the area that the prune spread we had at breakfast was from. She decided we should take a detour and see if we could find it, and take some photos and of course get some samples to send home to be evaluated. We could not find it, but Lynda tells me the area was classic romantic German, but naturally, I did not take any photos. (I am really going to have to work at being a tourist. I did not take any photos today, and whilst we saw some pretty things, as well as a few typical German things, it did not occur to me to get out my camera!) Now we are home I worked out why we could not find the factory etc, because it is actually at Bad Schwartau, in the very north of Germany! Oh well, nice things to look at along the way....

When we finally arrived at our original destination, Ruedesheim, we walked for a while, taking in the sights. I bought a fantastic collectors edition bier stein (see photos). Was thinking I should have gotten a bigger one, but then I would have been looking at paying over AUS$140, so settled for this one. Turns out it is definitely big enough, as a bottle of beer does not even half fill it!

Now the tricky part will be how to get it home to Australia without it breaking, especially as by then there might be a complete ban on carry on baggage......