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?” […]
And it’s almost Go Time….
It’s almost time to be heading out on BG Adventures’ next trip….. Germany for Oktoberfest in Munich followed by a Cycling tour through the Franconia wine country of northern Bavaria. We’ll start with Munich and enjoy 4 days there, including visiting the Weis’n (Theresienweise or Theresa’s Meadow) and then a trip to the Alps to […]
Wednesday…. “Ruhe” tag
Ruhetag….. “Quiet day” in German. The day your business is closed… for restaurants open on the weekend, typically a Monday but could be other days as well. For us, it was a quiet day after the flair-up of an old injury. One of our riders was having persistent and unfortunately worsening of an old hamstring […]
Tuesday…. what a day!!
Well… you can’t get lucky all the time on Adventures!! And today was our time to get unlucky!! We’ve had 4 fantastic days of riding but today…. not so much. We left the hotel in Miltenberg with every intent to make it to Hattersheim but then the Fates intervened. Literally, the second we left the […]