Sert Day 6

Verticle Vinyards in the Mosel Valley

Remich - Trittenheim - Marienburg - Ingelheim am Rhein

Distance: 159 Miles

The day started, as planned, with a trip to "Cactus" the local supermarket and drinks shop to take advantage of the incredibly low prices in Luxemboug. I came away with a bottle of Luxembourgs finest (hopefully!) pink sparkling and a medium range single malt, Glen Elgin.

I also purchased a small and very cheap rucksack for the tool kit to minimise the number of poly bags that we had to carry in and out of our accommodation each morning and evening.

By now we were expert at packing the boot and putting the hood down, so we were making our way up the Mosel valley in no time. Fortunately we were also expert at putting the hood up as not long before this picture was taken there was a sudden downpour, which was the last rain we saw until the 2nd last day on the way back to Kiel.We had an early and slightly extented stop at a gardening/DIY/motor shop to get some glue suitable to attach the Triumph Badge back on the back bumper (the 30 Year old glue had given up during the heavy rain duting the night in Bastonge), some screws and crimps to sort out the washer pump, which I had borrowed for the Landrovers test some weeks before.

We got the badge glued back on and Mrs VL polished some chrome while I got the washer pump mounted and wired back up.

Feeling ever more complete we continued up the fantastic Mosel Valley towards our lunch stop at Trittenheim with Mrs VL behind the wheel. "When in Rome", we enjoyed our very traditional lunch of Bratwurst and saurkraut with some very nice grape juice. During our short after lunch walk we spotted this tractor, which we had to get a photo of as it's identical to the Neighbours, only in minature. There were lots of these narrow tractors about, designed, obviously, to fit between the rows of grapevines.

It's amazing the steepness of some of the hillsides where they grow these grapes, almost everything apart from verticle rock was covered with rows of grapevines, a truly amazing sight, the photo doen't quite do justice, but it's the best one we got...

After a diversion away from the valley due to a closed road, and quick stop for ice creams at the very beautiful town of Marienburg we left the Mosel, and heady cross country through small villages and towns before finally plonking ourselves on the Autobahn towards Frankfurt. We arrived at our hosts, "The German Vets", fantastic appartment early evening, as planned. The day was capped off by a balcony bar-b-q, some good wine and local traditions and very good company...