Earlier this week I was visiting a very good friend of mine in Landau. Where the heck is Landau? ... you might ask. No worries, most of my German friends do not know about it either and I have only been here before because of my friend. Which does not mean that it is not worth visiting. If you love wine it is definitely a place to go. It is situated close to the "Deutsche Weinstrasse" (German Wine Road). There lots of small villages nearby that have small wineries and wine tasting. Landau is a small town in the South West of Germany close to Frankfurt and Mannheim. It has about 40,000 inhabitants and a really cute historic center city. Landau is a small university town that has been part of France probably as often as it has been German. Lots of old military buildings and facilities that have now been converted to small shopping malls, museums, pubs and apartments.
The city center is a small market square surrounded by historic buildings. It was farmers market when I visited (see below) and we bought 2 kilos (4 pounds) of white asparagus .....yummmmmm :-)
But first things first. We watched the game in a restaurant / bar with about 200 people. It was fun. Big projection screen, cold beer, great atmosphere and a German team that surprises even the biggest optimists. It is actually really fun to watch them, they play a very good offense and score many goals (8 so far). After the game we celebrated some more (of course) and met 4 Australians that came to Germany to wtach some games. God knows how they found their way to Landau ..... it was fun. Next day they went off to see Brazil and some other game. Well, if they made it out of bed. We heard that they kept going for quite a while. We got into trouble because we were running reeeeaaaalllllllllyyyy late for dinner .... The Asparagus was just wonderful.
This is a small wine bar ("Weinstube") which is actually located in the house in which the grand parents of Anne Frank used to live (Anne Frank was a jewish girl that was safed by friends who held her in hiding from the Nazi's. Her diaries became a famous book. It was early in the morning so that's why there was nobody sitting there.
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On Wednesday I visited a friend of mine near Landau where she lives with her family and 6 month old Martha) in an old Winery. Her partner is a stone mason that uses the old buildings as his shop. I would love to show you some pics, but .... well the batteries of my camera died and now I am frantically searching for an adapter that would fit the charger .... bummer. I got only one shot of the village, which shows you the little cobble stone streets and wood frame houses. Almost every second house in this street is a restaurant or wine bar.... nice.
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