Kronen Hotel Stuttgart City

... tent was still fairly full, had a band in full swing, happy Germans raising their glasses to prost, and hundreds of chickens and one cow roasting on spits. Our current favorite dance involves several moves, one being the schwim, must learn. Our meals even came with a free beer, which we tried and acknowledge that yes, it is better than American beer, but it's still beer. And neither of us have gotten over not liking beer. It really is too bad ...

... das, obwohl ich noch nicht einmal die Hälfte des Liedes gespielt hatte! Wahnsinn! Das war ein wirklich unbeschreibliches Gefühl für mich, obwohl ich von mir selbst nicht behaupten kann, dass ich so etwas selten erlebe. Frau Kolbs Klasse hat hervorragend mitgemacht. Allerdings fand ich es sehr schade, dass die Zeit nicht gereicht hat, um tiefgehende Gespräche mit den Schülern zu führen.

Einen Abend zuvor nahm sich Frau Kolb die ...

It was a quick drive from Nuremberg to Stuttgart so we decided to spend a few nights there. Stuttgart is famous for being the home of Porsche and Mercedes Benz. We decided to visit the Mercedes Benz museum and although Im not a big car person it was very fun seeing the evolution of the car. It was kinda frightening to learn how much involvemnet they had in World War II making planes ...

... and the gardens are really nice. I think the Basel zoo is better as far as animals go, but this one isn't bad for variety. I did not like the small areas where the animals are kept though. It seemed much too small for large wild animals.

After the zoo we walked around the city center and stopped in a beer garden for a little relaxation. We managed to walk around the New Palace and Palace Square and then went to the ...

... t see them and I started to wonder if I'd taken the right exit. I pulled off again and waited a moment and then realized that they might be heading to Konstanz, which is a city on the other side of the lake, so I turned back. All the high speed racing around had eaten into my fuel pretty fast and I needed to make a pit stop. Finally I reached Konstanz and found the three mouse-kateers waiting for me at a gas station ...

Caught a night train from Vienna and arrived in Stuttgardt in the morning. Had a great day wandering and seeing the sights. Yet another map from yet another tourist info place. More statues and old buildings (Boring right? Not by a long shot). Still walking around wide-eyed like kids at Disneyland.

... down nearly to the floor, and we saw 213 KLM's !!! It was a new record !!! And then a palace came into view Schloss Schwetzingen You could only do a tour, and as there is only one tour a day in English, we took a German one. It was quite interesting seeing the rooms in there restored state, plus the guide helped out telling us stuff in English. Once finished, we walked out into the gardens and headed for the mosque. Weirdly, there was one there and ...

... only 8 Euro. On the tour, we went to the palace garden and the historical city centre. We also looked at the Museum of Art and went on Schlossplatz square. I bought a souveneir t-shirt from the museum which cost me 13 Euro. I got back around 3 and had nothing to do so I decided to see how much money I had exactly. After I bought ...

... fish for motor vehicle. The Porsche and Mercedes museums are here if you want something more exhilarating - this is motorhome central! After some disappointing moments - day 1 arrived at hotel with 100kgs of bags to find the online booking from OZ was a josh and every other room in town was taken, as we were lucky to have the years events squeezed into this weekend (included his royal bobness - Mr Bob Dylan). We were well looked after though by very kind German people and had a nice ...

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