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... 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 ...

... und die Geduld, um mir Teilzeittourist ihre Heimatstadt zu zeigen. Total überwältig war ich allerdings am Wartberg, als wir die abendliche Aussicht über Heilbronn genießen konnten. Nach der hochinteressanten abendlichen Stadtrundfahrt gab es für mich einen Gaumenschmaus mit traditionellen schwäbsichen Spezialitäten. Und eines habe ich an diesem Abend hinzugelernt: Spätzle schmecken nirgendwo besser als im Schwoobeländle, heiligs Blechle.

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 ...

A greatt idea and change of plans. Kersten was going to take us out to get the car. She is so busy with her briefs and resumes that we have decided to get there on our own. Kersten thinks that this will take us such a long time and the tickets would be expensive. We explain, we think she has enough to do with her work and getting ready for their holidays beginning on Thursday. Taking us to get the car would take at least 2 hours out of her busy day. She does ...

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.

... to didn't carry them and suggested I try in Tuebingen, 45km away. Tuebingen would have been doable, though inconvenient. Gaggenau was totally out of the question. Fortunately, the second place I called carried Schabemesser and was located in the Koenigsbau on Schlossplatz, i.e. about as "downtown" as you can get and easily reached. They were very helpful and showed me a number of possibilities and explained what I needed. If you're ever looking for anything related to music in ...

... with the brotherhoods is canoing. In spring, each fraternity has a boat and enters in a race. The winners get to host a huge party that evening and the losers, well, the losers have one big glass of liver juice waiting for them. Stuttgart offered a little family history and lore, little taste of Schwaebisch cooking, and a lot of fun. Many thanks, vielen Dank again to Tante Lydia, Nina and all of the Webers in Stuttgart!

We decided to spend the last full day in Germany looking around Stuttgart. In the morning we headed off to the Mercedes Benz Museum. The new museum was opened right before the World Cup in May and it still has that new car smell. The old museum was smaller and free to everyone, but now you have to pay 8 Euros to enter the museum. We weren't too excited about the fee to enter a huge marketing display. Everyone does get a small PDA like device and head phones to ...

... and friendly place. You know every street and corner of your hometown. The peculiar smell of a certain area, the clandestine darkness of the window, that you passed each day when you were a school kid. As you wander around the city aimlessly, you run into someone you know from middle school or kindergarten. You have a chat, reminiscing the old times. Home is Christmas. Christmas is home. Celebrating Christmas at home. You know ...