Blogs from Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe - page 5

(deutsch weiter unten) With my mum celebrating her 66 birthday, it was time to visit my hometown Stuttgart again over the weekend. It was a nice feeling to hit the road again with our old, extremely cheap but somehow unstable car - it was like travelling again, at least for a few hours. It was a tough weekend for travelling as it was snowing, snowing, snowing and snowing. Even the main roads were covered with snow. Wow, it has been a long time since we have had that much snow in Stuttgart. We had a nice family dinner for the birthday celebration (happy birthday mum!) and met a lot of friends. Hey, that was nice to see you all again! And like all birthday parties, we had too much wine, too much food and did not ... read more

After the Mercedes museum we had to do the long walk back to the station to take the train to the other museum. We actually wanted to go to the dinosaur museum where Ute told us there was the remains of the only pregnant dinosaur in the world. I wanted to see this as I was always under the impression that dinosaurs hatched from eggs and were not born alive, but no go for that as we ended up in the wrong museum. Kris was not too thrilled as the dinosaur museum was her choice. Kee also really wanted to go to the hot springs spa called Mineralbad along the way, but I said that it was too cold and that they would catch a cold going from one extreme temperature to another and besides they ... read more

As promised here is the blog on our short visit to the Tv Tower and multiple visits to the Indoor Market. First up is our visit to the TV Tower. It was built between 1954-1956. It rises up from the summit of Hoher Bopser in Degerloch in south Stuttgart. It is the first concrete and steel TV tower in the world. It stretches 217 Meters high. The top portion has a broadcasting studio and cafe. Luckily there is an elevator to make the trip up that much easier. Once outside we almost blew away and froze to death at the same time. Still definitely worth the 5 Euro cost to get up there. The view was stunning and I look forward to visiting again in the summer. Unfortunately the cafe was beyond packed since everyone had ... read more

We drove through a scenic countryside from Luxembourg into Germany and found our host Ute's house pretty easily in Stuttgart, but I think I got the arrival times mixed up again and we arrived to a locked house!!! We waited for a while not knowing whether Ute was gone to work or if she had forgotten about us. Jonny waited with us for a little bit, but he had to leave as he had to drive 4 hours back to Lux. We tried sitting on the step outside the house but it was too cold, so we decided to leave our bags on the step and go look for somewhere warm to sit. The girls wanted to continue sitting on the step outside Ute's house as they found Wi-Fi there but hell no I wanted somewhere ... read more

I have been meaning for a while to write about our recent trip to the Czech Republic as well as to Southern Germany. My cousin Hana lives in Moravske Budejovice, a city in the Southern Moravia region of the Czech Republic. Sylvia's best friend Janka and her husband Fred live north of Stuttgart (the home of Porsche and Mercedes cars) in a city called Ludwigsburg. Our first stop on the trip was to visit my relatives in Moravia. This region is from where many of my relatives on both my father and mothers' sides of the family emigrated. My dad's family came from near Brno while my mother's family came from farther west, near where my cousin Hana lives today. Last summer, Sylvia and I visited Hana and I was able to take her to several ... read more