Shillig 4 Family

 I found myself taking pictures out the window everywhere we went.  I just wanted to take it all in and maybe help jog my memory of the things I saw later on.  Villages surrounded by farm land and vineyards.  It was beautiful.  The towns/villages were interconnected by winding roads instead of freeways and you could see for miles around as you drove.  We left that morning and headed out to Alzey for shopping, shopping for FIREWORKS! Just like the cost for bathrooms in Germany there was a cost for the buggies.  Christina lives in Wintersheim and all around her are windmills and vineyards, it's lovely!  These roads connect to each village, all the while they stay separate from one another.  Here on the left was a hillside and to the right a river. "General George S. Patton—a bitter critic of Montgomery—used his 3rd Army to force a bridgehead south of the Main, opposite Oppenheim. News of this was released "at a time...

We left Berlin in the late afternoon and drove over to our Bed and Breakfast in Poland.  The place we stayed was called the "Blue Beet Root." "The Blue Beetroot hotel legend has it that in Poland around 1791 the fields of Lower Silesia near Boleslawiec were all planted with beetroots. One of the most popular uses for the beetroot was moonshine! The alcohol was secretly brewed in the cellars of the barn (today it only contains fire wood to keep our Boutique B&B hotel guests extra warm). Only a few locals knew that the cart of beetroots coming from the barn hid a secret stash of moonshine below. The story goes that one winter as the farmer left the yard the horses bolted and slipped badly on the icy road. The whole lot, farmer, cart, horses, moonshine and the beetroots fell into the pond. Despite dredging, everything mysteriously disappeared without a trace... The story passed down by locals for generations says even now a single blue beetroot will occasio...