Savoring Silz

I just can't seem to get enough of the Southern Wine Route!! Every little town lining the Palatine forest is a little treasure on its own. Driving through some of these towns gives you the feeling that time has stood still and looking at the people who live there I always think that they don't have the slightest care in the world. Silz is a little town tucked away in the Southern wine route in the Wasgau region and it boasts of a 100 acre nature park called the Wild-und Wanderpark. It was Mother's day and it was a perfect sunny day to visit the park with the kiddies along with hubby dear and my parents.

There are several hundred animals who have made this nature park their home. Little bunny and rabbit met with fallow deer, deer, mountain goat, horses, rabbits, sheep and many other animal friends.

The deer roamed freely and some of them made it a point to walk all around the park with little bunny. She made sure that she collected enough animal feed for them and kept them very happy and it was no wonder that they followed her around very obiediently.

Indeed a great place for the kids and also for their parents. Plan to definitely go back there again one of these summer days.

Castle ruins Wachenheim

Friday evening was family day along with colleagues from work. The weather was just perfect, something that we just cannot take for granted especially given the bad spell we had in the last weeks.

The destination was the caste ruins of Wachtenburg.

It is a lovely place to go on a team event and even better, take along your family. If you decide to climb up the tower you will be truly rewarded as the view over the Rhine valley is spectacular.

You can see all the way from the city of Worms to Ludwigshafen to Speyer. Also up the ruins there is a nice little restaurant serving traditional Palatinate fare and some of the local wine. I had a glass of the Gewürztraminer that was listed on the menu and that was just perfect. The kids practiced their climbing and little rabbit and little bunny collected all the gravel they could possibly get their hands on.

Forgot to mention that the castle itself dates back all the way to the 12'th century!! Another place to file away as a destination for a day trip.