September Holiday: Tuesday, 23.09.2025

The weather was similar to the day before, and we knew there was likely to be some rain during the day but not so much as to make a good walk unpleasant.

Sunrise as seen from our room

From our trusted booklet, we chose a tour by the name Burg-Olymp-Tour, castle Olymp tour. Now, if you read that name, wouldn‘t you think the tour was going to include a castle (or maybe its ruins) named Olymp? Especially if the photo next to the description showed two hikers leaning against the sun-lit old wall of a stone tower?

Well, it turned out that there is no Burg Olymp. Instead, the tour went past the castle on the hill we‘d already visited, and the viewing point at the highest part of the tour, up in the woods, is called Olymp.

Never mind, we still enjoyed the hike in the woods and the beautiful vistas, and needed our rain jackets with the hoods up only for maybe 15 minutes at one time and for another short while later on.

Burg Landshut, where we‘d already been

A mysterious gate

First stop was the chapel of St. Anna, directly in our line of vision from the hotel room. 

Onwards and upwards to the viewing point Wilhelmshöhe:

And again onwards and upwards to Olymp, where I did not take yet another picture of almost exactly the same view.

The path leading downwards was rather steep and required full focus, but I stopped twice to take these pictures:

Back down in Bernkastel, we went to a bakery to buy a couple of Nussecken (think a kind of flapjack) and on our way to the hotel, stopped briefly at a historic wine cellar that offers tastings (for 30 € per person) but can be visited for free as long as you don‘t drink anything. 

We were impressed by the vastness of the old cellar, like a burrow underneath a former monastery, but mostly wanted inspiration as to which wines we might buy to take home as a souvenir. 

Leaving without actually making a choice, we arrived at the hotel at about 3:00 pm and enjoyed a rest in our room, making coffee to go along with the Nussecken.

For our dinner (very good again), we remained at the hotel.