My friend from the English Club, Nicole, had her birthday last week and to celebrate, David and Lynne along with Bettina and myself caught the train on Saturday night to Egelsbach, about 3 stops up the Frankfurt line, to meet up with her and her partner, Frank. We went out for a very nice meal and a few drinks at one of the local club bars. After much scoffing and sculling we eventually made our way back towards the train station and hence to the hotel over the road named, The End Station, where some more beer sampling was undertaken until the train arrived. Great friends and top food = good times!
To celebrate my newfound job, David and Lynne came around and hijacked me to the infamous Bayerischer Biergarten in North Darmstadt. What a humungous beer garden! It is set in around 5 acres of grounds with 100´s of tables and oodles of chairs spread around in all directions under the huge spreading elm trees. At this point in time the trees were all still bare with only a few starting to show the regrowth of new leaves. Apparently during the summer months it just simply heaves with people. It is known also as a Wirtshaus or host house, which is a name given in reference to the fact, that you can purchase, along with copious quantities of beer, traditional German foods such as pigs trotters and super fatty bratwursts (multi-preservative, high fat, offal tube) and the like. We sampled some of the schwartz bier or black beer as well as a dark wheat beer. Both were very good indeed and it was only the cooling evening that eventually sent us packing. I can imagine it would be a very nice place indeed to while away a lazy summer’s afternoon or two in the shade of all those beautiful trees. Strangely enough the weather seems to be improving almost every day of late. Kismet?
