at least that’s what it says on the brooch. It is a memento from the 2012 Wurstmarkt in Bad Dürkheim, the largest wine festival in the world (sort of like a huge Oktoberfest with wine instead of beer). The little replica glass is called a Dubbeglas which is typical for the Palatium. They drink their wine in half litre glasses that have grooves so they don’t slip through their fingers when they eat something fatty at the same time.
Nautical: A fishing boat in front of Roker Pier in Sunderland.
Splendid: In the 18th century the Mannheim Palace was larger than the palace of Versailles.
Refraction: A circumzenital arc (not a rainbow) or the sky smiling.
Selected: A sculpture in the spa gardens of Bad Dürkheim. He’s been selected and he knows it.
Familiar: How more familiar can you get than snuggling bum to bum?
Thursday’s Special: Pick a Word in July
The peonies have started to bloom. This direction, go!
Maja is the name of a frisky cartoon bee. She is very famous in Germany and hence, bees are often called Maja.
Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Index
Wordless Wednesday
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Bargain stalls at local fares were called “Cheap Jacob” in former times. The customers were mostly rural people who seldom if ever got in the bigger towns to do their shopping.
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and if the room is a square, that’s okay, too. He might be spouting drivel but he is holding a glass of Pfälzer wine while he is pontificating on … well, drivel. And his friend approves.
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These people are sitting at the Worschmarktbrunne in Bad Dürkheim where the largest winefest in the world takes place every year for two weeks. They have rolls, sausage and wine. And a lot of joie de vivre!
Wurstmarkt time is high jinx time!
The Wurstmarkt in Bad Dürkheim is the largest winefest in the world. It lasts for 2 weeks. Enough time for all the high jinx to last you a whole year!
The sculpture is part of the Wurstmarkt fountain in the square in front of the Bad Dürkheim station.
Disclaimer: I did not want to jinx my weekend by focussing on the negative aspect of the word.
During the first two weeks in September, Bad Dürkheim in the Palatium puts on the largest winefest in the world, the Wurstmarkt (literally: sausage market). It’s not a new festival, it has been around since 1417 – in 2017 it was celebrated for the 600th time! In comparison, the first Oktoberfest in Munich was only in 1810.
Most visitors to the fest arrive by train or tram and the first thing they see when they arrive is the Wurstmarkt fountain.
