Tag: Vineyards

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Vineyard Family Picnic

One of my favorite ways to get out of the house is to take a family picnic. This can be as simple as eating in your backyard, at your local park, or my personal favorite, in the vineyards! I’ve posted a bunch about how I absolutely adore the Untertürkheim vineyards, and how lucky we are that they are so close to us! It was a beautiful autumn weekend here in Stuttgart and we decided to spend our Sunday picnicing in the vines. I quickly made PB&Js, sliced a few bell peppers and threw in a package of hummus (my kids […]

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Enchanting Forbidden Fruit

If you didn’t catch word, my favorite (free!) activity these days is wine hiking! Also known as vineyard walks or Weinwanderung in German.  Untertürkheim is our starting base and only a 10 minute S-bahn ride away from downtown Stuttgart.  You basically walk up the big vineyard hill behind the town and from there, go exploring!  The routes are endless.  By the end of our hike I’ve already plotted another route to take next time. 🙂 So this weekend we were walking through the vineyards, you know, as we normally do and we then stumbled upon a little apple tree grove […]

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Autumn Wine Wandering and Besen Stops

Autumn is my absolute favorite season, and Stuttgart is stunning in the fall.  The air turns crisp in the morning and evenings, we get spectacular sunrise and sunsets, I light candles every night for dinner, and am most inspired in the kitchen whipping up cosy meals of butternut squash, sage, sweet potatoes, and all of the savory goodness!  My favorite fall weekend activity is walking through the vineyards around harvest time and we did just that this weekend in the town’s surrounding Stuttgart, with some Besen stops mixed in for extra fun! We are so lucky to live in and […]