Eeyore, Donkey, Mistlletoe, Sylvester … the one in Aesop’s fable, the one from the Town Musicians from Bremen. All of them.
And the cherry donkey on the top:
I’m a Fan of Donkeys
Tag: Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße
More Neustadt
I’ve featured Neustadt an der Weinstraße quite a lot the past couple of weeks and here are a few more windows from the village Mußbach incorporated in Neustadt. They are from this house – an obvious tourist magnet.
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Walking through Mußbach in the Vineyards
We noticed this door while passing and all of a sudden we felt watched.
Archways in Neustadt a.d. Weinstraße
There are more than 20 towns and villages called Neustadt in Germany, meaning “new town”, so they get an affix to distinguish one from the other. Neustadt an der Weinstraße is situated on the German Wine Road, a route traversing the wine region of the Palatinate region in the southwest of Germany. It is surrounded by vineyards to all sides, and there are traditional wineries and wine-growers on every street and on every corner. These are traditionally homesteads in the middle of the village, several houses and buildings surrounding a courtyard. They usually have a large gate as the main entrance to let tractors and in former times horse-drawn carriages in.
Often they have a smaller door set in the larger gate for everyday access. When the building purpose is changed the arches are often kept because of the structure of the wall as well as for looks.
In this case the arch was filled in except for a door and a window.
Twin Windows from Neustadt an der Weinstraße
We spent last Saturday in Mußbach, a part of Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Yes, we were there to sample the new wine at “the world’s longest-lasting wine festival” (i.e. it lasts from mid-August to mid-October) but our walk through the vineyards also brought us past some houses. With Windows.
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I’m a Fan of the Dubbeglas
We went to a winefest on Saturday, the first in two years! It was a longish wait to get in (only 500 people were allowed in the courtyard of the winery including those who only came to pick up their 2 or 3 or 5 litre canisters of new wine, so we had to wait until other people left, had to show our vaccination certificate and log in with the tracing app) but it was worth it. We drank new wine which is called “Federweiße” – a milky liquid with fermentation not yet completed. The traditional glass used at any wine festival in the Pfalz is the “Dubbeglas“.
It has round grooves – which helps your grip if your fingers are greasy from holding a sausage roll or a roll with “Saumagen” or other local delicacies.
Here is proof that we went to a winefest in 2021; the glasses are usually decorated with a new picture every year. If you are wondering about the colour of the wine it’s a red spritzer (“Schorle“) – we changed to mature wine because too much “Federweiße” can … well it can give you the runs before it makes you drunk. But the glasses hold half a litre and we are not hard-core enough to drink half a litre of wine at a time and live to tell the tale.
These are the baby versions (250ml) which are a concession for tourists and are not really taken seriously.
Hiding Behind and Hiding In
An egg is a promise, by definition.
Before:
and after:
Surprise!
And sometimes, the surprise may even be bigger:
The Cosmic Photo Challenge: New Life Emerging
Times gone by?
An old sign for a coffee bar in Neustadt an der Weinstraße might not be all that appealing – yet in our current times the idea of sitting in a coffee shop or a bar or a restaurant with other people, friends or even strangers, has become very appealing indeed. Let’s hope that such a simple pleasure is soon again possible.
But the name of the place lets me wonder … while “Schluckebier” is a normal, if not very common, name in German it can be rendered as “beer for quaffing”. How appealing is that?
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Appealing.
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