Trip to Konstanz

Got on the train and met up with Ersin in Stuttgart. Caught the 3 hour train ride to Konstanz. Now just a point to note, public transport in Germany is not cheap. If you want to catch an ICE train (fast trains) it is often cheaper to fly! So you need to catch the slower trains. Konstanz is only 100km or so away and it took 3 hours.

Konstanz is a beautiful city, right on the German / Swiss border. In fact, you can walk to Switzerland. We wandered around the city taking photos. We came to a big cathedral (turned out to be the biggest one in Konstanz) and decided to climb to the top. Several hundred mini-stairs later we made it to the top. The view was amasing! Unfortunately, at this point of my trip my camera came up with a "CARD NOT INITIALISED" error. I still haven't figured it out, but my memory card is corrupted :( so I lost all my photos of Stuttgart and Konstanz. Oh well, an excuse to go back there again :)

After that we got a paddle boat (the ones you paddle like a bike) and went around the harbour for an hour. I was thirsty after all this so we stopped in at a biergarten. I had a Hefeweissen (wheat beer) and the other two had coffees. I recommend people visit here if they go to Germany, but I haven't seen much of it yet.
We decided to try and walk to Switzerland but none of us remembered our passports, so we couldn't go and have a look.
We continued walking around the city and then eventually caught the train home.