A trip to Germany (part one)

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I’ve just returned from a week in Germany, the Mosel valley actually. The weather was really kind to us allowing us to take some wonderful country walks as well as enjoying the usual tourist sights. At the risk of boring you, I thought some of you might be interested to see some of the pics we took.

This is the ‘Weingut’ we stayed in, a traditionally run family vineyard. We stayed on a B/B basis, but they do have Selfcatering apartments for those who want to do their own thing. One thing I can say its that it was beautifully decorated, comfortable, and spotless…as was everywhere we went.

The next lot of pics were taken on our walks. I won’t bore you with labelling each on, suffice to say the flora, fauna and views were beautiful

Amongst the wild flowers we noticed swathes of Rubekia? The height they grew to was quite amazing as you can see from the pic with OH. He is almost 6ft and many were twice his height.

This was a delightful family, sorry we didn’t know what kind..perhaps someone could tell us?

It was harvest time for the grapes, so everywhere was either laden with grapes of actually being picked. Unless the vines were on the very steep hillsides much of the crops was picked by an amazing machine with picked only the grape, but left the stalk behinds.

I have absolutely no idea what this catapillar was, but it looked pretty awful. It was about 3inch long…any ideas?

That’s all for now folks, hope you’re not too bored! If you’re interested I’ll post pics of the places we visited, namely Trier and Bernkastel-Kues next time. Happy gardening everyone!!

• 8 Oct, 2012
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