Volkacher Lebensart

Last weekend the Heidelberg Cassidys travelled to Franconia for the Volkacher Lebensart festival. 

The idea is simple, and explained in the leaflet linked here (for German speakers). Nine wineries open their doors for the weekend, put on a different band in each winery, serve matching food and their own wine. We spent most of the evening at Weingut Erhard, and I can heartily recommend their blend of Scheurebe wine, Cuban food (tasted more like creole) and Latin American band „Frutos Tropicales“. As a result we’ve order a Probierpaket of 6 bottles which arrived today. As I write I can state that the Riesling is good too.

Some pictures below:

You know you're living in Germany when...

You know you're living in Germany when the following conditions apply:

1. You visit your father-in-law in hospital, who won't eat the food because the chef may just come from Nord-Deutschland.
2. You drive halfway across the city to get a particular type sausage for said hospital-bound father-in-law.
3. You enter the shop 15 minutes before Feierabend, only to be told that the Wurst was packed away 15 minutes ago, and who do you think you are anyway coming in at this time?

Hmmmm

Schwarz, Rot, Gold

The excitement has been building in the last few weeks with regard to Germany's participation in the European Championship. Neither Heike nor I are particularly interested in football, certainly not enough to fly a black, red & gold flag from our cars, as most Germans seem to be doing. Apart from anything else, the extra drag caused by those flags no doubt translates to another few million tons of CO2 in the atmosphere.

So instead we decided to put a flag on the kids' bike trailer, as shown below.

In addition, Liam is super-proud to have an extra large (freebie beer advertising) flag installed on his bike.

The fact that a three-year-old is trailing a beer advert around is somewhat embarrassing, but the price compensates.