Rain moving over the Rhine Valley. Wet empty space around a cormorant as well as dry empty space around a two-seater airplane. Looking out from the Riedburg near Edenkoben into the clouds. The Carolingian church of the Lorsch Abbey, a UNESCO heritage site. I keep … Continue reading Empty But Not Meaningless
The Upper Rhine Valley stretches from Basel in Switzerland to above Frankfurt. It’s up to 40km wide. In Bingen the valley narrows and becomes a gorge. On both sides of the upper and middle Rhine is wine growing country.
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Castle Schönburg (literally Beautiful Castle) is situated on the Schönberg (literally Beautiful Mountain) above the town of Oberwesel in the UNESCO world heritage site “Rhine Valley”. And nowadays it’s a rather exclusive hotel.
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Or so it says on the plaque:
I wonder – is it foolish to claim that he is the original one since apparently it is only been only 127 years (11*11+6)?
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Around May there is kind of madness that descends on Germans. They go bananas over white asparagus. They eat it with meat, with ham, with pancakes, on its own, usually with a sauce hollandaise or a bechamel sauce. They even paint their houses with it. Proper fanatics.
BTW: The writing properly translated means: Without asparagus, life is unimportant.
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This is the Schönburg in Oberwesel in the Rhine valley. It’s on a hill, with a few steep paths leading up. They weren’t the problem, though.
The wineries on the way, all offering wine tastings, were the obstacles we had to overcome.
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It’s even called Schönburg which means beautiful castle. The worst thing about it is that you have to walk up that hill to get there.
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