Last Thursday we had the chance to visit the cellars that are tunnelled into the Berg (Mountain/large hill) near to our home in Erlangen, and where the annual Bierfest- Bergkirchweih- is held every May. It proved quite an adventure....these were used to store beer during the brewing process pre-refrigeration.
Our guide was the owner of Entla's Kellar, so we began by seeing into their premises, and own cellars, used for storage now:
cheese.
We were then taken for a tour of the Cellar Number 8....
This picture is misleading as I used a flash....
...this is what it was really like , lit only by candles......
Then we were asked to put all phones and cameras away and walk many metres in the pitch dark. I lost Pete and Elijah in the complete black, and was panicking , wanting to stop and wait til the others came back...Jemima still holding my hand persuaded me to carry on, which we did , I must say very outside my comfort zone!
The good news is we made it....
Above ground on the side of the Berg, is a sculpture garden. (We explored this when some English friends came to visit us in our first summer here) Deep inside the hill is one more...
I had to use the flash to see the labyrinth of tunnels.
If you click on this picture to enlarge it it gives all the details of the many hundreds of metres of tunnels right into the hill.
