About 20 miles from Stuttgart, Germany, a real treat awaits wine-loving hikers: the Felsengarten Kellerei circuits. Therefore, the next two posts will cover two circuits of this small but highly accessible wine country.
Another day and another hike in France, but this one was an extraordinary outing, providing a multitude of sensory memories to savor!
Gastronomic hiking has become very popular in Alsace – and why not? Eating is one of the country’s favorite social activities: The food is excellent, the wines divine, and the company generally convivial. Alsace this season offered well over a dozen. The one I participated in, set around the attractive town of Barr, offered all three: a 7-kilometer (4 mile) hike that included flavorful Alsatian food, a variety of well-balanced local wines, and plenty of joie de vivre among the participants.
One of the loveliest hikes in Germany is a 60 mile-long, mostly a gentle walk through vineyards and villages, at the edge of the Haardt Mountains on the west side of the Rhine River Valley. The entire area in this southwest corner of Germany is known as the Pfalz, in German, and the Palatinate in English. As the name implies, the area is filled with castles. Castles and wine: I love this region! The pristine villages, back-dropped against evergreen, red sandstone mountains capped by castle ruins, with their wonderful wines and wineries keep calling me back for more visits.
