Bad Durkheim Wurstmarkt (and Wine Fest)

The Bad Durkheim Wurstmarkt and Wine Fest is the largest wine festival in the world and it's held every year in the town of Bad Durkheim in Germany. 

We went for a day trip out there on September 8th. It was like Oktoberfest for wine! The glasses of wine they had were huge. And by huge I mean 1/2 a liter, per glass!!

It's a lot like a fair. Rides, games, fun houses (sort of) and of course music and drinking. We went during the day so it was fun for our family but I'm sure at night it really comes to life!

Brats of course!

 Lots of fun kid rides.

 The largest wine barrel in the world. It holds 1.7 million liters of wine!

 Lebkuchenherzen - German gingerbread cookies with phrases on them. These say "Ich liebe Dich" which means I love you!

 My husband took this picture of me, he's pretty proud of it!

 Food and wine!

 These glasses of wine are huge!

 Ariana loves carousels!

 Practicing her shots like Meridia from Brave!

 Fun music.

Rheinland Pfalz is wine country! 

Middle Mosel Wine Festival and Heidelberg

You know how in Thankful Thursday I said how sometimes I complain about Germany but then are reminded to be thankful for the little things. Well, I decided that I should show you some of our recent adventures around Germany. We went to the Middle Mosel Wine Festival in Bernkastel-Kues before Richard left. Wine and carnival rides, what could be more fun!

Wine booths and eating brats.

Andrew and Viky. 

Lovely ferris wheel and clouds. 

View from the top. 

Castle 

Rich winning at the shooting game. He shot 6 balls off streams of water with 5 shots! I was impressed!

Strange instruments. 

Also, I spent a day recently in Heidelberg with Andrew. It's such a pretty city with a river and a castle on the hillside. Here are some pretty shots of the day.

The organ in this church was amazing and HUGE. You can see someone standing in the doorway to get a reference of size. The stained glass was really pretty too. 

Strange monkey statue and if you put your head it in, you will come back again.

Gorgeous day!

A one handed guy playing mushrooms on the street!

I really do like Germany and Europe and I'm glad I've taken some opportunities recently to get out and enjoy the culture here.