From The Coast of Gold..... Across the Seven Seas: The Town!

This is the main street in the town.

A little walkway along the wall.

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These are pictures of Dettelbach. It is a quaint little place that is surrounded by a stone wall. I live inside the wall. I can walk five minutes and be surrounded by vineyards and farms. The lookouts on the wall once served for protection.

The second night i was here I ventured into the "dive" bar. I sat down with a beer and promptly a young dude sat down at the table I was at. His friends joined him a minute later. I was surrounded...... being a New Yorker my instinct was to look for a way out and choose the two guys I was gonna plow through first. I needed no escape. They all took me under their wing for the night and for the next five hours we hopped from bar to bar.... which is to say we went to the other bar.... and then partied in a youth center until dawn. Youth center you ask?? Yes. The drinking age is sixteen. There is a bar in the youth center..... in fact the place is vacant otherwise.

A few days later I walked the streets dressed as a snow flake in the Fasching parade... think Mardi Gras without the tits... and poured wine to all the observers who stuck out their cups as we passed. The parade ended and the entire town... and five surrounding towns... packed into a hall and a DJ spun dance music for 6 hours. I danced my ass off for a while but when the guy played "Barbie Girl" I knew it was time to get the fuck out of there. All of the music was American.... and none of it was original. He did however play "Party Rock Anthem" so I guess my night was complete. Something did strike me as special.... In the U.S. there would be an empty dance floor (or at least I would be the only dancer) for quite some time before the people got their nerve up. Not here.... nobody cares about how they look..... they party and dont give a fuck what anyone thinks.

From the vineyards overlooking town.

REFRESHING!!!

I cant wait till spring. for one I get seasonal depression so the dark skies do me no good but the vineyards are gonna pop and its gonna be gorgeous. There is a program in a nearby city in which you work 2 weeks in a vineyard and study for 2 weeks rotating until you complete the vintner course. I am on the fence about either getting my sommelier certification here in Germany and then moving to France, or working the vineyards here and when I am fluent in German moving to France and after studying French get certified in Paris.

These are the difficult decisions in my life..... hahahahahaha!!!