The Weinsteig Part II Bad Dürkheim to Deidesheim

The weather forecast for this morning was not very clear. As the promised fine day yesterday gave us a snow shower and a wind from the Arctic regions, we did not expect any good weather this morning. When I looked out at about 07:30 I saw blue skies and sunshine. I woke Judith up. We breakfasted and drove to the Rhein Neckar Zentrum's car park to take the OEG to Mannheim HBf where we took a Rhein Haardt Bahn train to Bad Dürkheim. The RHB stops in front of  Bad Dürkheim station.  We walked down to the main road, turned left and crossed the road on the corner to walk up the Mannheimer Straße. We had had trouble finding a café when we here last week, but had we walked another 100m along the Mannheimer Straße we would have found half a dozen. We turned left at the Stadtplatz (Town Square) and followed the Weinstraße (Süd). By this time we had picked up the red and yellow markers Weinsteig feeder markers and swung right by the pizza restaurant to climb out of town. The signposting was superb all day. At the end of the tarmac we followed a basalt cobbled road and then turned right towards the Flaggenturm, the tower on your right. We climbed up to this and it wasn't the last climb of the day, The view from the tower was good but hazy. We climbed through the forest before we dropped steeply and then climbed up over another ridge where we had views of Wachenheim. Yet another steep drop to a campsite before we climbed up to the Wachtenburg ruined castle - restaurant and then climbed on for some time before we dropped off the edge of the world to reach Deidesheim. The usual deal once we got there and we lost  the way markers, so wandered round the village in circles until we found the railway station. (Just turn left by the Deidesheimer Hof and turn right down the Bahnhofstraße.) We just missed a train and so had to wait half an hour for the next. We could have taken a bus to Ludwigshafen, I suppose. Train back to Bad Dürkheim and RHB to Mannheim, OEG to Viernheim.