Rhine Valley and the wine is fine!

We drove through Germany today, and the tour guide was giving us a lecture about the food in Germany and how it was very heavy. Yeah! It was exactly what I ate growing up. Sausage, pork cabbage rolls, and fried potatoes. I have never thought of my heritage as being very German although Persicke is, but apparently my family retained more of the heritage than I realized. I didn't get this body from eating salads and fish!

We then toured the Rhine River on a river boat with delicious wine, went to a delightful village named St. Goar, and then participated in a wine tasting (except we got to swallow instead of spit it out). They only make white wine here, and it is delicious. The vineyards are built into the steepest hills--some have a grade of 60%. I don't understand why they don't have trouble with soil errosion (perhaps David can shed some light on this). I bought two bottles to take home.

We also stopped at an original beer stein maker, and they had steins with chunks of the Berlin Wall on the pewter top. They were 149€ so they were a little to costly for this backpacker. We also saw the castle that Walt Disney based his castle on!

Moment of the day: Both Shannon and I have been going on about why the tour would put two tram rides up a mountain back to back--we didn't realize that when the second tour said "gondola in venice" it didn't mean the type of gondola like in Jasper. DUH! Gondala means gondla along the canals. Most likely we are the only idiots that thought this, and Shannon was almost too embarrassed to tell me! She didn't mention that she realize it until I confessed!