he "wines of the Neckar" are made from the best French, Hungarian,
and even Cyprus vines. The most celebrated are those of Bessingheim.
They are of a light red colour, not deep, and of tolerable flavour
and bouquet.

Wiesbaden grows some good wines at Schierstein, and Epstein, near
Frankfort. The best wines of Baden are produced in the seigniory of
Badenweiler, near Fribourg. At Heidelberg, the great tun used to be
filled with the wine of that neighbourhood, boasted to be a hundred
and twenty years old, but it gave the wine no advantage over other
Neckar growths. Some good wines are produced near Baden. The red
wines of Wangen are much esteemed in the country of Bavaria, but they
are very ordinary. Wuerzburg grows the Stein and Liesten wines. The
first is produced upon a mountain so called, and is called "wine of
the Holy Spirit" by the Hospital of Wuerzburg, to which it belongs.
The Liesten wines are produced upon Mount St. Nicholas. Straw wines
are made in Franconia. A _vin de liqueur_, called Calmus, like the
sweet wines of Hungary, is made in the territory of Frankfort, at
Aschaffenburg. The best vineyards are those of Bischofsheim. Some
wines are made in Saxony, but they are of little worth. Meissen, near
Dresden, and Guben, produce the best. Naumberg makes some small
wines, like the inferior Burgundies.

With these pages as a general guide the touring automobilist must
make his own itinerary. He will not always want to put up for the
night in a large town, and will often prefer the quietness and the
romantic picturesqueness of some little half-mountain-hidden townlet
and its simple fare to a _table d'hote_ meal, such as he gets at
Cologne or Coblenz, which is simply a poor imitation of its Parisian
namesake.

The following skeleton gives the leading points.

Cologne to Bonn (Hotel Rheinfeck) 27 Kilometres
Bonn to Godesberg (Hotel Blinzer) 7 "
Godesberg to Andernach (Hotel Schafer) 28 "
Andernach to Coblenz (Hotel Metropole) 18 "
Coblenz to St. Goar (Hotel Rheinfels) 46 "
St. Goar to Bingen (Stakenburger Hof) 29 "
Bingen to Mayence (Pfalzer Hof) 27 "
Mayence to Frankfort (Savoy Hotel) 33 "
Frankfort to Worms (Europaischer Hof) 52 "
Worms to Mannheim (Pfalzer Hof) 41 "
Mannheim to Heidelberg (Hotel Schrieder) 22