More than 600,000 visitors need to be catered for. What caught my eye was that the use of the toilets is 70 cents each time – but it’s possibly to book a flatrate, 5 Euro per day. By my calcutation this means you have to go the loo more than 7 times to break even.
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I had planned something else for Water, Water Everywhere this week but I could not resist to share this picture from the weekend. There are usually fees for the use of public toilets in Germany; they are in turn mostly clean. At the Bad Dürkheim Wurstmarkt, billed as the largest wine festival in the world, the toilets are not only spotless, they are also customer friendly: offering a flat rate for their use. Remember: they sell wine or spritzer or any other liquid in half-liter or liter servings. Still – that’s a lot of liquid removal for 5€.
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You get the six word title but you can’t expect me to be quiet on this topic.
Even without the curry, us Germans have a very close relationship with sausages. The biggest wine fest in the world happens each year in September in Bad Dürkheim in the Palatinate and is called “Wurstmarkt“. The people of the town built a large, detailed fountain in the central square called the “Wurstmarktbrunnen”.
I rather prefer this rapproachment over a sausage than Brezhnev and Honecker.
Incidentally, Honecker was born and grew up pretty close to the Wurstmarkt, namely in the Saarland. Where my son and grandson had the best currywurst EVER when we were on holiday there. They still talk about it a year later – even though the Ruhrpott (the area around Duisburg, Essen, Dortmund et.al.) and Berlin vie for that honour.
Definitely serious business. Do not disturb!!
Incidentally, I saw a report on TV where they asked Asian people on holiday in Germany what they thought about currywurst. Their reaction to this very German dish was hilarious.
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The largest winefest in the world beckons anew this weekend. After sampling the local fare, I might be less than well versed when quoting Shakespeare.
A double dip because our tram leaves soon (a tram ride of almost 2 hours – but we’re not going to risk our driver’s licence).
FOWC with Fandango: Anew and Six Word Saturday
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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.
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.
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