 The Palatinate, in Germany 10km from the French border |
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 Remnants of the old city wall |
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 This is a largely rural wine producing area |
 You can walk amonst the grapes and sample them, there are signs marking the different types of grapes and the name of the wine it will become |
 The route from the French border into Germany is called the Wienstrasse, it is a trail that goes through the wine producing area and it marked with a Weintor at each end |
 The Maginot Line at Schoenbourg, France |
 Inside one of the gun turrets of the Schoenbourg bunker |
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 The complex was quite large and entirely underground. After entering, you take 155 stairs down to the tunnels which connect the barracks, power plant, kitchen, etc with the actual defenses |
 A wall mural from the 1930s in the Wine Cellar |
 The Pfälzerwald |
 Landeck, a fortress ruin in the Pfälzerwald near the French border |
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 Protecting the wine below from French invaders since the year 1200 |
 Trifels, from below |
 On the top of the rock formation is Trifels, a rather large castle formation in the Pfälzerwald |
 Burg Trifels |
 The reverse angle of the above picture. The walls run along the natural rock formation and create a cool observation platform |
 Trifels was the castle in which Richard the Lionhearted was imprisoned upon his return from the Third Crusade in 1193 |
 The well in a small courtyard |
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 Inside the main hall at Trifels |
 Annweiler, below Trifels |
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