On Saturday, Janey from Is That You Darling? hosted the September edition of her monthly A Photo an Hour linkup. I was quite excited to take part this time as I had actual plans for the day. For once a photo an hour post that wouldn’t consist solely of me drinking endless cups of tea and maybe going food shopping! Naturally, I was in 😉 So here’s my day at the Wurstmarkt wine festival recorded in one photo per hour.
9 a.m. (I actually got up at 8:30 but forgot it was photo an hour day until after I’d showered). Deciding what to wear is difficult in the current changeable weather conditions!
10 a.m. Breakfast time! Tea is definitely needed.
11 a.m. On the train with our tickets (actually, I have a Bahncard 100 so this isn’t my ticket)
12 noon. Waiting for our second train to leave. Here’s a terrible picture of Neustadt train station.
1 p.m. Made it! Now to have a walk around and see what food’s on offer.
2 p.m. Food eaten (wild boar Bratwurst and wild boar Saumagen with potato salad – yum!), now for my first glass of wine. Mindful of the long day of wine drinking ahead of us, I went for Schorle (spritzer).
3 p.m. Selecting my next wine – in the Weindorf area, they have proper menus (and table decorations – notice the plant under the menu)
4 p.m. Still drinking Weinschorle in the same tent, so to avoid taking the same photo again (it was a different wine, but it looked the same!) I went with a a selfie in my friend’s sock monkey hat.
5 p.m. Time to try some different wines in the slightly less posh area – no cushions on the seats here!
6 p.m. Entertainment! A mini “marching band” was playing next to the wine hut thingy we were in.
7 p.m. On to another hut for some different wines. Hmm, what to choose?
8 p.m. Moooore wine! Going down nicely 😉
9 p.m. Off back to the train station. We came across this fountain on the way.
10 p.m. We had to change trains twice on the way home, this photo was taken on train number 2.
10:20 p.m. Bonus photo! We changed trains for the second time in Winden, where we were reunited with the model geese we discovered there last year. Here I am getting reacquainted with my goosey friend 😉
11 p.m. We arrived back in Karlsruhe to find this going on at the train station. I have no idea what it was all about! (I’ve blurred out some faces because German privacy laws are strict and I’m paranoid about being punished.)
And that’s my final photo. By midnight, Jan and I were already tucked up in bed with our glasses of water, a fun day having been had by all. The Wurstmarkt in Bad Dürkheim is the world’s largest wine festival. In 2014, it’s on for one final weekend – from 18-21 September. If you’re in the area, get yourself down there. You won’t regret it!
You can see what the other participants in the linkup got up to on this day by going to Jane’s blog post.
Whatever it is that’s going on at the station, it looks like fun! 🙂
It does! 🙂
Love that band pic 🙂
So very German 😉 Jan said “I should probably know the words to all the songs they’re playing, but I don’t!”.
I love this idea!
Photo an hour or the wine festival? 😉
How fun, I love wine tasting so an entire festival sounds amazing!
It’s really fun! I live right next to Germany’s wine area and I think most villages have their own mini wine festivals, but this one is the biggest.
I love the sock monkey hat! And why geese? The marching band is so stereotypically German is it not? Spo, were you a bit “jolly” coming home after all the wine?
I’m not sure what the geese are all about. I think they were new last year – they were looking a lot more battered now! (Probably because of people like me climbing all over them…).
I was a bit merry, but not too bad. We walked around a lot in between photos, and also ate some other stuff (not pictured because it wasn’t on the hour).
Love the sock monkey hat and your goosey friend! Looks like a fun day!
The sock monkey hat is fabulous. I might buy one for myself 😀
I’ve always loved these “a photo an hour” types of posts. I’ll have to try it someday!
You should do one. It’s so fun seeing what other bloggers do all day.
How awesome that you found this going on in the station on the way back! Random, but awesome.
Totally random! We stopped to watch for a bit but never figured out WHY they were dancing!
Such a fun idea – I wonder what was going on at the station!
Would be interesting to find out!
Great pics. A very random celebratory day. :))
It was a lovely day 🙂
Damn, next year! That looked like so much fun! And you were so sensible starting with the spritzer – I would do no such thing 🙂 LOVE the band!
It’s always the first two weekends in September. That should give you plenty of time to plan 😉
A whole year – I’ll be the most organised Irish-German that ever lived 😉
It’s my week anniversary today!
An organised Irish person… how unique! 😉 Happy one week. How’s the search for somewhere to live going?
Good! All will be revealed tonight 🙂
Oooh, the suspense! 😉
Plus more Hermann, of course 😉
Oh, this may have to happen next year. BV says that he thinks one of his colleagues (and my former student) sell their wine at that fest, so further investigation is definitely necessary. What a good day to do the photo an hour thing!
Sock monkey hat = awesome.
Oooh, yes! If we’re going as well maybe we can meet there 😀
I’m always down for a wine fest, and bonus if meet ups are possible. 🙂
I love the monkey hat! Looks like you had a great day – thanks for joining in! 🙂
Jane x
It’s ana amzing hat… I need one of my own now! But in a different colour obv.
I WANT YOUR HAT.
LOL, it’s not actually my hat… although I am hopefully buying my own soon.