Moevenpick Hotel Stuttgart

... The fair grounds are literally right off of the train station for Bad Canstatt. It would be hard to get lost. Being a rainy Friday, we were able to find a seat in a beer tent too. It did take us awhile to try to decipher the reservation postings and finally search through our burgeoning vocabulary for "ist hier frei?" Apparently for dinner you have to think a year in advance, which obviously wasn't us. But for a "weekday" lunch, we were in ...

... 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.<br><br>Einen Abend zuvor nahm sich Frau Kolb die ...

We attended a big birthday party this weekend in Stuttgart. It was my boyfriend's grandfather's (Opa, as I now know him) 80th birthday. We celebrated with the entire family in a nice little restaurant in a small town near Stuttgart. I have no idea the name of either of those places.<br><br>We had some free time to explore Stuttgart on Saturday morning so we went to the Wilhelma Zoological and Botanical Gardens. It is a massive ...

... took the metro back to the main station and finally found a tourist centre where we could buy a map of the city. Now we can explore the city with a bit of direction and is surprisingly not far from where we are (booking the hotels months ago and with so much inbetween we really remember nothing about each place we are staying in). <br><br>Whilst Matt had a nap, Amy grabbed some take away pizza and brought it back to the hotel for ...

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.

Brought to Europe to witness the wedding of Jacques and Elodie, I decided to pay visit after to my cousin Gerhard, his wife, Kristina, and their two children, Miriam and Robin. I hadn't seen them in six years, and it was wonderful to spend some time with them ...

... the unifacation of Deutschland under Otto von Bismark, Stuttgart has been the capital of Württemberg, Deutschland's third largest state. Stuttgart really came into the world scene as "The Cradle of the Automobile." The motorbike and the automobile were both invented in the stadt by the pioneers Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, and was also the home of Ferdinand Porsche. Daimler, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach, and Porsch are all headquarted in Stuttgart or it's surrounding ...

... the crowd and thick smoke (different laws here in pubs) it was a fantastic night. Friday started with a sleep in. Sweeeet! After lunch we headed to a town called Weil der Stadt. It is a town with houses and walls dating to the 1500's. We found it interesting that the town isn't a tourist Mecca, apparently this sort of historical town is nothing special around here; they have plenty of them. In some areas (where there were no cars ...

... nd good times were just *s plentiful. J*ckie *nd I m*de * trip out to the f*ir grounds on two sep*r*te nights in Stuttg*rt to m*ke sure we didn't miss *nything *nd I *ctu*lly enjoyed it more th*n Munich. We got out f*ir sh*re of beer, me*t *nd h*unted house rides, while none of which lived up to the hype of how I remember them from my childhood, were still fun. All in *ll it w*s * bl*st to me*nder through the c*refree c*rniv*l *tmosphere surrounded by v*rious chocol*te ...