Tuesday 10 October 2017

Birthday-Beers-Brauhauses

Bad Wildungen was our next port of call seeing us parking on the outskirts of town and setting in to a healthy walk uphill in to the Altstadt with the now familiar timbered houses


'Herbst' is upon us and pumpkins are everywhere


We only stayed the one night to recharge and service the van and TBH that was enough here...


Our lunchtime stop and walk next day saw us visiting Homberg


Some very old houses...


and the ubiquitous Konditoreis...



We make it to Tann in the rain and crack open some recently acquired Detmolder Landbier which really hits the spot


They call it sunshine apparently and it graced our presence next day for a short while

Parked alone on the Festplatz in the bottom of the lovely village we hatch a plan to go eat my 'Birthday Meal' in the town two days early to guarantee being somewhere good to celebrate and not get caught in the 'Wilderness' somewhere


One of the local Gasthauses stumps up my special 'Vorspeisen' request of mixed meats


This has to be the biggest Schnitzel we've ever encountered
An inch thick (overcooked 😏) and a real jaw aching but tasty challenge for Nina


A couple of days later and my Birthday starts in style with a lovely card from my equally lovely wife..💕💕


We are at Mellrichstadt for the main event so go off for a long walk after a cracking breakfast served up by my personal assistant for the day


Its a mix of showers and clicking walking sticks as we bang out around 18km


Starvin' he was guv!
Not home yet but the first cafe back in town was doing tasty kebabs
(so much nicer than the garbage served back in the UK by far)
Well it was my Birthday!


Still with walking gear donned we enter a really nice bar to round off the day
A couple of Jagermeisters went down a treat...


We move off to recamp not too far away at Kulmbach


A really nice town is this with some beautiful old architecture 


Even the doves have a Des Res

So here's the deal..
If you don't care for hearty rustic cooking, walking all day or cycling in the woods, frequenting seemingly endless Brauerei and drinking old fashioned proper beer out of big mugs then..
Germany is really not the place for you!


For us its probably the centre of the Universe!


Look how fed up we are!


To add to temptation Kulmbach has several Brauhauses to visit all selling the town's famous Kulmbacher beers 
(Not to be confused with the giant Krombacher brewery in Kreuztal)
We park up at the back of the Mönchshof Brauerei for a couple of nights and taste their delights at lunchtime


Schnitzel folded and stuffed with bacon/cheese filling


Another monster Munchenschnitzel for my eating colleague which found its way over to me later..


Topped off with Kaiserschmarm and beer of course
(Thick flipped and chopped pancake with apple puree)



To burn off those calories we ironically walk the town and find the source of all things heaven like 


Ahhh, decisions, decisions...



















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