the november-december edition of country walking had a section on christmas pub walks. needless to say that those pages set my mouth to slobbering mode — and, also made me a bit envious…until i realized, that, hey, we can do the same in erlangen (where we are staying this year for christmas)! so…when the weather this morning cleared up and revealed a blue sky with lots of sunshine after a frosty night, we decided to do it!
equipped with a map of erlangen and the parts east of it and a compass we set off by way of the nature reserve and then into the seemingly endless [reichswald forest]. the weather is fantastic: cold but sunny. during the night we had frost and all the grass and ground flora is just frosted over making for fantastic photo opportunities 
the reichswald forest is really quite large and getting lost is easy. a couple of times we need to resync our idea of where we are with reality — in the end though we arrive in kalchreuth, not only the destination of our walk but also the highest point (413m). after looking around a bit we settle for the landgasthof meisel pub (dating back as far as 1560): excellent beer (wolfshöher) along with a goose breast (dr who) and tenderloin pan (mrs d).
shortly before 15:00 we start again and are on our way back to erlangen…about two and half hours later we are back home. a fantastic christmas eve walk!
- stats: 24.25km, 340m altitude diff
- DrWhoWiki: landgasthof meisel
