Sunday is supposed to be family time in Germany. Andi said you can't vacuum or do laundry. And I was just about to do both! HA. We drove around for about 3 hours, just checking out Stuttgart in the rain. After all that driving, I was not up for much excitement, so I just had some pretzels and a Erdinger Weisbier in a .5 l tallboy. Still good.
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Day Trip #1
We did our first day trip on Saturday. We have a great book with about 25 german road trips listed. Day trips in the car are great for the kids, they can sleep and they travel well. The problem is gas. It is still $9 / gallon here (1.5 E/L). Crazy. We saw revelers coming home at 7 AM still drinking and a guy getting a pee test at 8 AM by the side of the road. I hear the Germans have harsh DUI rules. Anyway, the high spots of our trip were Burg Trifels (a cool castle where they held Richard the Lionhearted prisoner) and Saarsburg (a neat little wine town on the Saar). Came home, put kids in bed, had a glass of wine and stinky cheese, and a Meister Pils. I think I am not a Pilsner fan, they are a little bitter. I can drink them, but they are not my favorite.
Google Map of day trip #1