Travel Blogs from Stuttgart, Germany
Australia - last 16 of the world
... Australiana like "land down under" and "TNT", we were swept out onto the massive street party that had engulfed Stuttgart, seemingly involving every Australian in the entire world. Huge. Fucking enormous. Before the game, we envisaged riots in the ...
THE IDEA
... spending time on our blog. Please post comments and write something in our guestbook :-) The Idea travel from Stuttgart (Germany) to Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia) by train the team Baidi and Basty the motivation spend time together, ...
floating among dream-woven clouds
... images" border="0" height="22" width="185"></a> ----------------------------------------------------- Soon I arrive in Stuttgart. Everything's the same here. Everything's cold and grey. People don't mind each other. I take the ...
Leaving Stuttgart
In Germany the city of Stuttgart is well-known for HipHop music and cars. The country's most famous HipHop group "Die Fantastischen Vier" formed here. Prestigious companies such as Porsche, DaimlerChrysler and Bosch established their Headquarters in the ...
preface to traveling
... HIGH QUALITY PHOTOS? ----------------------------------------------------- I thought I would go to Georgia on a train. I thought I would go from Stuttgart to Gera, then continue to Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Istanbul, Tbilisi. I gave myself four ...
Australia vs Croatia - Crunch Time
... doubt find a stash of 20 flares down your pants. Believe me when I say the security padding-down at Stuttgart was the most thorough I experienced in Germany. The other surprising discovery was that all the Croatian songs were totally lame. And when I say ...
Chapter 55: Stuttgart and Schwarzwald
... Germans in their own scene, and getting to practice my language skills with such patient teachers. Monday Jonas took me into Stuttgart and showed me around. I like the downtown area a lot, even though it's not super-big. The pedestrian shopping ...
Waiting for Gufman
(S) My first trip to Germany!!! After my grandfather leaving this country 80 years ago, I'm finally here. We find a hotel with limited difficulty. It would seem Chad expects my German to be perfect - even though I took it for one year when I was 16. Let's ...
Plans go astray
... was close to 40oC and the 5 km walk zapped all my remaining energy and I collapsed on the lounge for the rest of the evening. England won the world cup game but a severe hail storm prevented them from ransacking Stuttgart as they had the night ...
Beer Virgins
... walked into a few different tents, and they were all empty. The bands were playing but nobody was home. I ordered a stein of Stuttgart's Hofbrau, I took a sip and realised two things. One it was colder than Munich's, and two, it was disgusting. I ...
Germany, Roman style
... . Does the whole of Europe revolve around Germany !!!!! Will this question ever be answered ????? Only time could tell. We headed back to Stuttgart, but this time to the north of the town. We decided we would go to the Porsche factory on the off chance of ...
I WANT A MERCEDES NOW
We had missed out Stuttgart, two years previously, but as we were in the Chookster, we were going there. The speciality of Stuttgart though is Porsche and Mercedes. We emailed them both for a factory tour, but Porsche were full, and Mercedes told us to ...
What day is it today??
We bade farewell to Ruth and rode to Stuttgart which was only 2 hours away. We had made arrangements with another family from Hospitality Club and were made very welcome by Breda and her twins, Fiona and Jacqueline. The girls took the BOSS to meet ...
5P's - Spell 'em out
... . Usually they are mostly empty being winter, but this time I ran into a little bit of trouble. I got off in the Stuttgart main train station and I tried looking for the information office. I must have walked by it about three times before I actually ...
Star studded Stuttgart
... Australia advanced to the next round in the world cup and I experienced my most luxurious CouchSurfing experience to date. I arrived in Stuttgart with my accommodation already sorted, except I didn't know where I was staying. I called Ken, my host, to ...
Lug und Trug bei Air Berlin 3. Teil
... 5 Stunden) Nachdem die Presse bereits informiert wurde forderten wir ein ICE-Ticket das uns mit der halb neun Verbindung nach Stuttgart bringen sollte. Um 8 Uhr waren wir dann bei den Schaltern von Air Berlin wo wir einen Redakteur des Koelner ...
Day 46: Hegel-mania
... both of us), and when they thoughtfully called up the other hostels in the city, those were COMPLETELY booked! They explained that Stuttgart was very busy now for some reason. They actually told me why, but that was just beyond my level of comprehension, ...
Our first entry
... run out of time or our itinerary doesn't pass your home. Speaking of which, we should make an itinerary soon. Stuttgart, in Germany, is Babel fish for motor vehicle. The Porsche and Mercedes museums are here if you want something more exhilarating - ...
First full day in Stuttgart
I woke up this morning to find out that the hotel had free complimentary breakfasts. So, I saved some money there. I took some pictures of the hotel so you may see how it looks. After I got ready to go to Neues Schloss (New Castle). I went to the ...
Heidelberg Visit
... ; Beitigheim at 4:30. Then to host homes for a quick meal and back for the evening concert. The students have been superb! They are following directions and doing what we ask with no problems at all. Tomorrow Stuttgart by bus for tours and ...
Spininnig the Wheel of Destiny
Give your heart and soul to what you do. Dont look back, but dont look too far ahead. Have faith that all answers shall be given in their time due. ...
Walking around Stuttgart
... the whole time as in Berlin. I think people here enjoy a comfortable way of living. There are some 600000 inhabitants in Stuttgart and almost 3 million in the greater area of the city. The city is not too small, yet doesn't have the atmosphere of a ...
Museum!
... that this museum was a museum of a "Prehistoric collection with oldest sculptured works of art known to man."(http://www.stuttgart-tourist.de/ENG/leisure/landesmuseum.htm) Some of the sculptured there were unbelievable. You never would have thought that ...
Cross-border croissant smuggling
... were talking about. In the afternoon, Chris and I and one of his sisters went exploring in the public woods right within Stuttgart. Horseback riding must be popular in the area because by the side of the road we saw a horse-level zebra-crossing ...
Quick stop
Adam and I left his place and headed to Stuttgart. It was just to have dinner and go out a bit. He had a friend that was out of town and we got to use the apartment. We walked around, grabbed some food, and had some drinks. It was a lot of fun, just a ...
Getting ready
I think I might try and update this regularly, but we will see. So many unknowns right now- how many internet cafes? how much interest I will actually have to update? among others The excitement is rising, but as always, the actual arrival in Salvador ...
A Moment Like This
At exactly 4 pm, the tower bells at St. John's Church in Stuttgart began to ring. This was the cue that Paul & Kerstin’s wedding was about to start. The wedding entourage, mostly in their distinguishable purple outfits, huddled ...
All I can Say is "Time" by Pink Floyd
I had all intentions of posting the rest of my trip across Eastern and Southern Europe, but to be honest it would be a slap together job that wouldn't be worth your time to read. Instead I am going to post a video that Phillip and I made from the trip, ...
Wuerttemberg State Theater
I found out about this place from an advertisement I seen just the other day so I decided to check it out. Turns out that there was a ballet going on later so I went. It was a ballet of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet was played by Tentschikowa and Romeo was ...
Autobahn
Today we had breakfast with Carlotta, which consisted of pretzels, bread, copious amounts of nutella, and various other spreads along with tea. I never really drink tea, but this was actually good-it may have begun a habit. She couldn’t meet up ...
