Stuttgart and some flights...
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This weekend is slightly different to my other European jaunts. This weekend, I’m flying to Bangkok for work. My flight wasn’t due to leave Stuttgart until 8:55pm Saturday night which gave me Saturday day to explore a bit. After spending an eternity packing my many, many kilos of clothes into about four different bags, I decided on what I could leave here in Stuttgart and what I need to bring with me.
With that task behind me, I set out for my first destination for the day, the “old” Mercedes museum. I’ve actually visiting on the last day of it being open, as the massive profits that DaimlerChrysler are making has actually left them with enough coin to build a massive new museum. Over the next month and a bit, they will transition out of the old and into the new. The museum was very interesting with lots of really old cars, the oldest dating back to 1885. Also a couple of really nice cars in their such as their Le Mans Cars, their F1 car and a few other modern day super cars.
The next stop for the day was Konigstrasse as I needed to shop for a new mobile phone. For those of you that don’t know, mine fell out of my pocket in a cab and was officially gone 30 mins later when I called. Oh well. I quickly concluded that buying a phone in Germany is just expensive and gave up on that pretty quickly.
I had set myself a task of going to a train station, Weinsteiger, which I pass everyday and think to myself that it has a great view of Stuttgart so that was my next stop. I trained out here, took a few snaps then proceeded to walk about 40mins back into Stuttgart, stopping to take photos if I felt like it. I eventually walked all the way to the Stuttgart Art Museum, Staatsgalarie, where I went in and had a look around the various pieces for another couple of hours.
This saw enough time for me to get back to the hotel, grab a bite and a few beers before heading to the airport. Flight was Stuttgart to Zurich (40mins) then Zurich to Bangkok (nearly 11hrs) where I landed at 3pm Sunday afternoon local time. Understandably I was pretty exhausted and melting in the heat so Sunday night was a voyage to my pillow. I’ve got a week here then I’m going “via” Perth on my way back to Stuttgart.
See you all soon.
Dave
This weekend is slightly different to my other European jaunts. This weekend, I’m flying to Bangkok for work. My flight wasn’t due to leave Stuttgart until 8:55pm Saturday night which gave me Saturday day to explore a bit. After spending an eternity packing my many, many kilos of clothes into about four different bags, I decided on what I could leave here in Stuttgart and what I need to bring with me.
With that task behind me, I set out for my first destination for the day, the “old” Mercedes museum. I’ve actually visiting on the last day of it being open, as the massive profits that DaimlerChrysler are making has actually left them with enough coin to build a massive new museum. Over the next month and a bit, they will transition out of the old and into the new. The museum was very interesting with lots of really old cars, the oldest dating back to 1885. Also a couple of really nice cars in their such as their Le Mans Cars, their F1 car and a few other modern day super cars.
The next stop for the day was Konigstrasse as I needed to shop for a new mobile phone. For those of you that don’t know, mine fell out of my pocket in a cab and was officially gone 30 mins later when I called. Oh well. I quickly concluded that buying a phone in Germany is just expensive and gave up on that pretty quickly.
I had set myself a task of going to a train station, Weinsteiger, which I pass everyday and think to myself that it has a great view of Stuttgart so that was my next stop. I trained out here, took a few snaps then proceeded to walk about 40mins back into Stuttgart, stopping to take photos if I felt like it. I eventually walked all the way to the Stuttgart Art Museum, Staatsgalarie, where I went in and had a look around the various pieces for another couple of hours.
This saw enough time for me to get back to the hotel, grab a bite and a few beers before heading to the airport. Flight was Stuttgart to Zurich (40mins) then Zurich to Bangkok (nearly 11hrs) where I landed at 3pm Sunday afternoon local time. Understandably I was pretty exhausted and melting in the heat so Sunday night was a voyage to my pillow. I’ve got a week here then I’m going “via” Perth on my way back to Stuttgart.
See you all soon.
Dave
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