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What: Asparagus Saturday
Where: Schwetzingen Zentrum
When: 7 May 2005

Pay homage to German’s most phallic vegetable in the heart of asparagus country at Schwetzingen’s Asparagus Fest.

Did you miss the Heidleberg Fruehlingsfest last weekend? Check out these in the area:

What: Leimener Frühlingsfest
Where: Georgi-Markt-Platz, Leimen
When: 7 May – 9 May 2005

Small but quaint Spring fest in the Georgi Mark Platz in Leimen. Make sure you do a little exploresing, because the fest spread back into every nook, cranny, and parking lot between Georgi Marktplatz and the Leimener Braurei.

What: St Ilgener Frühlingsfest
Where: Festplatz St. Ilgen
When: 30 Apr – 3 May 2005

Never been, but who am I to turn down a fest.

You can find more events in the Leimen are here: Leimen Calendar of Events 2005

What: Music and Wine Tasting at the Adam Mueller Winery
Where: Adam Mueller Weingut, Adam-Mueller-Strasse 1, Leimen (Next to the MiniMal)
When: 9 April 05 (15.00-whenever they feel like it), 10 April (11.oo-18.00)

Adam Mueller celebrates 270 years of wine making. The event will be catered with both cold and warm food and lots and lots of cheese. Here is the musical line up:

4/9
16.00 - Jazz Big Band Sandhausen
20.00 – Soulfinger

4/10
11.00 - Huub Dutch Duo
15.00 – The Pope of Cheese

What: The Würzburg Wine Village Festival
Where: Virchowstr. 2, 97072 Würzburg
When: 25 May - 5 June 2005

The Skinny: According to Suite 101... The Würzburger Weindorf (Wine Village Festival) heralds the beginning of the wine festival season. Some forty tents cover the Marktplatz (Market Place) during the ten-day long event. Revelers have the opportunity to taste over 100 different vintages of Franken wine, guaranteeing the chance of finding a favorite.

What: Dixieland Jazz Brunch
Where: Kaiserberg Weingut, Lindenbergstrasse 69, 76829 Landau-Nussdorf
When: The first Sunday of every month in the Summer

The Skinny: Dine on an excellent food and listen to live Dixieland Jazz in the courtyard of the Kaiserberg Weingut. The cost is something like 7-10 euro per person. They usually have coffee and cakes too. Lunch is locally catered and very good with a choice of 3 different meals. Nussdorf is North of Landau. The winery is on the west side of town. Begins promptly at 1100 uhr. Word on the street is to arrive early (NLT 1000 uhr) so you can get in and get a seat.

Schedule:
1 May - Viva Creole, form Schoenberg. The skinny: a local favorite, expect a full-house
5 June – ArgG Jazzband from Mainz
3 July – Blütenweg-Jazzer from Bensheim
7 August – Rentenerband from Ramsen.
4 September – Marryland Jazz Band aus Köln

The Inside Poop: For 50 euro, two people can stay in a 35 Sqm. flat right on the winery. For more info, contact the Weingut, 06341-61836 .

What: Wilhelmstraßenfest (AKA Theatrium)
Where: Wilhelmstraße (duh!), Wiesbaden
When: 10 - 11 June 2005

The Skinny: A co-worker writes...

This fest is possibly the best fest in all of Germany, and trust me, I have been to a few. The fest is free. Usually they have four large stages set up for live music. Wilhelm Straße is two blocks from the American Arms Hotel on Frankfurter Straße and runs all the way to the Casino (Kurhaus) and stadt theater. The arts and crafts offered for sale are some of the best I have ever seen. In the past they have had street performers throughout both days. Great food, wine, Sekt, bier and mixed drinks.

Now that I am starting to think about it, you will want to check the mixed drinks stand with the Brazilin girls shaking it up. When I start to drool on myself, Maggie usually drags me away so I can eventually regain some sort of composure.

Anyway, DO NOT MISS THIS FEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What: The Stuttgart Spring Fest
Where: Canstatt Wasen (Stuttgart)
When: 16 April - 8 May 2005

The Skinny: Stuttgart hosts one the biggest Frühlingsfest in Baden-Württemberg. It’s only half the size of the Cannstatter Volksfest in the Fall, but a beer tent is a beer tent, and they’ve got at least one. The website seems to be down as of late, but there is a little bit of info on the Cannstatter site.

How to get there: From the Stuttgart Hauptbanhof, take the following Strassenbahns one stop to the Bad Cannstatt stop: S1 in the direction of Plochingen, S2 in the direction of Schorndorf, S3 in the direction of Backnang. Then follow the crowds.

Date: Unknown, sometime in April
Time: 11:30am (meet up), 12:00pm (start)

Rules: Finish race and finish beer (but not in that particular order). Teams of two run from the Koenigstuhl to just across the Neuenheim bridge with a case of beer. The winner is the duo that crosses the finish line first... with an empty case. The event is mid-April, but the details are still a bit hazy (as will be you if you participate). I will pass on more info as I get it...

Beer requirements: 0.33 liters (kleine)/case of 24 bottles

Judges: None. As in most German activities, the reward for finishing this race is honor. Of course, you could easily cheat and dump beer, but then you won't have the satisfaction of knowing you honestly accomplished the feat. If this isn't enough to deter the cheaters, this race is totally devoid of any type of material reward. You don't even get a dinky "Certificate of..." signifying that on that day you got wasted and ran down a hill.

Happy training!

What: The Long Night of the Musuems
Where: Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen
When: 16 April 2005, 7 PM to 3AM

The Skinny: Over 80 museums in the Rhein-Neckar Valley are open to those with a ticket for 8 glorious hours. Not just art by dead people, but also music, dancing, theater. Your ticket will get you transportation on the S-Bahns, Regional Bahns and busses. Tickets are 16 euro, and can be purchased here. Word on the streets is that you can also get them at your local USO for 12 euro.