Schwetzingen & Wine Tasting in Bad Durkheim

Today we visited the beautiful town of Schwetzingen.  Wally, Julia and I used to visit here often when we lived in Mannheim in 2004/05.

Shopping in the market


This area is famous for its' spargel (white asparagus) at a certain time of year.  This statue celebrating spargel is in the town centrum.


Schwetzingen castle gardens





We brought a picnic lunch...

...hunted for snails...

 ...took some family photos...







...and took care of business! ;)


Can you tell it was very hot?!


Then we drove over to Bad Durkheim and stopped by our favorite winery, Darting Weingut.  As always, both the wine and the service were amazing!

One of these holds 5000 bottles of wine!





Julia trying grape juice :)

Another great day in the books! So happy to have our family here visiting! :)