This morning we headed off bright and early with the intent of driving the entire length of the Weinstrasse which is a local driving route which winds through the principle small villages of the wine growing region. We started in the northern part at St Martin in the morning. It was a lovely small town that seemed very lively with many tourists. The stores and wine tasting rooms were still opening while we were there so we just walked around and enjoyed the wonderful atmosphere.
Of course as it was late morning we were looking for some kaffee and kuchen. We found a lovely spot in the sun which served wonderful zwetschgenkuchen (plum cake) for which Mum has an absolute obsession.
Because it was still a bit early and we weren’t really in the mood we continued on our way along the Weinstrasse thinking we would do a wine tasting in another town. Unfortunately we stopped at a few towns and found them to be absolutely dead. All of the wine tasting establishments were closed and there were no tourists or people around. We couldn’t understand what was going on. After the third such town we gave up and went directly to the southern end of the Weinstrasse at the Deutsches Weintor. This is a big stone tower built in 1936 to mark the end of the wine region in Germany as the French-German border is close by.
We had lunch on a lovely terrace overlooking the vineyards. The restaurant was part of the Weintor complex. It was so relaxing to sit in the sun and enjoy the view. The atmosphere and food were wonderful but wow it was very very slow service!
After lunch we leveraged ourselves out of the comfy chairs and continued further into Alsace bidding the Weinstrasse farewell. Our object was the lovely town of Wissembourg. We had a lovely stroll around. Unfortunately we were still too full from lunch to enjoy a cup of kaffee at a cafe.
It has been a lovely time here in Lemberg and I am very grateful to Henny for her wonderful hospitality. It was also lovely that today her daughter Silke could join us for our wine tour.