TRAVEL AND LIFESTYLE DIARIES

Last year in April I went to the Ahrweiler district in the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany. The nearest big city is Bonn. In this district you will find the River Ahr, which is a tributary of the Rhine River and the Eifel mountains. Also in this district you will find the ‘Red Wine Trail’ of Germany. I did a little bit of hiking on the Red Wine Trail when I got interrupted with a searing headache. So that jaunt didn’t really ended up well and I had to cut it short after reaching Dernau and having a little wine break at an old monastery ruin called Weingut Kloster Marienthal . Luckily I had a paracetamol waiting back at my hotel. Here is the short hike I did with breaktaking vineyard views in the Ahr valley: Red Wine Trail: Ahrweiler to Marienthal Red Wine Trail: Marienthal, Dernau and back to Ahrweiler The capital of Ahrweiler is the twin towns Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and the most beautiful between the two is the medieval fortified town of Ahrweiler. I had lunch her...

Bad-Neuenahr-Ahrweiler are twin towns and the prettiest of the two is hands-down, the fortified old town of Ahrweiler. You can still see some of the stone walls and towers that protected the city before up to this day. The hotel I stayed at for this holiday is also located in the Ahrweiler area, sitting on top of a vineyard valley overlooking the town. My salad lunch and the St. Laurentius Church (view from my table) on the Marktplatz. I decided to have lunch in town and picked the Kleinertz Restaurant & Bar on Marktplatz because its terrace has a great view of the St. Laurentius Church and the market square. Although the sun has moved and shadows cast a large part of the terrace, which in turn sends people away, it didn’t bother me at all. I thought I could use some serious people watching whilst lunching even under the shade. Because we are not always blessed with warm and sunny days in northern Europe, people get crazy when the sun is out. People literally bake the...