The Wine Ride…. Stage 4…. Karlstadt to Marktheidenfeld
Stage 4 …. getting closer to the end of this adventure. We left from Karlstadt and headed 50 km to Marktheidenfeld, another wonderful town on the Main River in Franconia. Today’s ride had us on the eastern edge of the Spessart Mountains, as the Main River heads south….The red arrows show our start in the […]
The Wine Ride – Maps of Stages 1, 2, 3
The Wine Ride – Stage Three – Ochsenfurt to Karlstadt
Day Three has us heading north out of Ochsenfurt towards Würzburg to end up in Karlstadt. It starts out as a mainly flat and straight ride along the east side of the Main River. It’s a 30 mile ride with 12 miles to Würzburg and 18 miles on to Karlstadt from Würzburg. We’ve been dodging […]
The Wine Ride… Stage Two Volkach to Ochsenfurt
After a great ride, dinner and night’s sleep, it was time to start Stage Two of the Wine Ride. It would be a 30 mile ride through more vineyards but also some orchards. We had a great breakfast and then set up for our ride. We left shortly after 9 am with a beautiful day […]
The Wine Ride – Stage One Theres to Volkach
We’ve started the Wine Ride portion or our Adventure…. remember? I told you… 6 Stages along the Main River in northern Bavaria? I knew you’d remember…. So to get going, we needed to leave Munich and Oktoberfest behind us and head for the start. We made it to Theres without any delay…. 3 hours arriving […]
Oktoberfest and Wine Ride…
We’ve had 4 wonderful days in Munich! We went to the Wies’n, the Hofbräuhaus, Oktoberfest and Bier Tents. We’ve enjoyed parks and restaurants, Biergartens, wine tents. And we even drove to the Alps to see two of King Ludwig’s famous castles, Neuschwanstein and Linderhof. Now… what’s left?? Today we start the Wine Ride portion of […]
Oktoberfest…. part 3 and 4
Wow! How did we (meaning I) miss a day blogging? Maybe it was because yesterday was a somewhat full day….. and today has been packed!!! So let’s get started!! Yesterday, Sunday, was a down day…. I didn’t plan a thing so that the Troops could go do their own thing. And they did!! Some wandered […]
Oktoberfest… Part 2
We left the Heinz tent promptly at 2 pm and we had 3 hours to explore. And there is so much to see…. if you’re familiar with a large State Fair, think at minimum 2-3 times as many people. Last year, for example, 6.3 million people attended for a daily average of almost 400,000 people/day!!! […]
Oktoberfest!!!
Today is the official start of Oktoberfest or the festival honoring the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese on 12 Oktoberfest 1810 at a place called Theresienwiesen or “Therese’s Meadow” and abbreviated to “The Wies’n”. The early years, the festival was held on the anniversary of the wedding. However it didn’t take the […]
Wow! Was yesterday a LOOOOONG day?!?
I left home at 830 to go to Des Moines for my 11 am flight to Germany. It was a flight hour and a half from DSM to Atlanta, a 3 hour layover and then a 9 hour flight to Frankfurt. I know, you’re saying “Frankfurt? I thought you were going to Oktoberfest in Munich?” […]