Another Taste of Home

Hello peeps.

No real news from the week. Did my work as per usual, Wednesday night I played Squash and had a sauna, other than that... status quo.

This weekend Anna and Alex were coming to visit me in Stuttgart… and this was going to be my last weekend in Stuttgart for the rest of my time here :-P

So… I left work early on Friday afternoon to meet up with them at the Hauptbahnhof (main train station). After the hugs and greetings we went on to see Stuttgart.

The first stop was lunch, we had some traditional German cuisine… Doner Kebaps (hehe). After our hearty meal we decided to head up the Stuttgart TV Tower. This is the oldest TV tower in the world. Now I didn’t have the “local” know-how of the city that one should have… as I had only spent a couple of days in Stuttgart, and hadn’t done any of the touristy stuff yet. So we had to muddle our way through the map to find out which U-Bahn to catch etc. Luckily we had Mr. German Alex who could translate anything perfectly... finally a use for him ;-)
We got there in the end. The view from up there was pretty cool. The day was absolutely beautiful and you could see for miles. Unfortunately… there isn’t much to see in Stuttgart. Lots and lots of orange/brown roofs that all look the same, and some of the factories. Stuttgart was bombed heavily in WWII so everything is relatively new. One of the things we found amusing was the “Anti-suicide” barriers… which were these massive spikes. If you didn’t make it over… you weren’t going to be very happy.


After this we headed back into Stuttgart. We had a wander around the city… I got lost a couple of times trying to find some gardens I had been told about, and in the end we gave up. We did find some small “gardens” and we aptly named these “Tobigarten” :-P

We walked back into the main part of the city and found ourselves at Schlossplatz. We stopped for a drink and ice-cream. This square of Stuttgart is beautiful.


We wandered around the city for another hour seeing some of the side-streets and then found our way back magically at Schlossplatz, no matter where you go you always seem to end up here! It’s like the city wants you to go here. We sat down for a little while enjoying the sun and catching up. (Don’t ask me what we talked about… but it was good to see them again).

Dinner was the next stop, and all the restaurants that we wanted to go to were either way too expensive, or had no tables free. Eventually we stopped and had Pizza Hut, which was nice anyway.

A final walk through Stuttgart by night, we walked again past Schlossplatz, then found our way to the Hauptbahnhof. Went on our way back to my place.


We spent the evening having a couple of drinks and catching up and talking about all sorts. We were in bed by 1am.
This was my 2nd taste of home in 2 weeks :-)