Stuttgart, Germany

We attended the Stuttgart Wine Festival on Saturday night. Lots of people, food and wine spread across three different squares (platz). We had to have some help ordering food because the German menues were SO different than the ones you see in Basel. Stuttgart is home to Porsche and Diamler-Chrysler, so we decided to take in the museums. Sunday we were able to walk to the new Mercedes-Benz museum which just opened prior to the 2006 world cup. The soccer stadium is right next to the museum - an ideal location! It was really a fantastic visit - the content, layout and architecture were terrific. FYI - Porsche is still in the process building their new museum, the existing one is very small. Then we were off to the Weissenhofsiedlung (literally: white house settlement). This neighborhood was built after WWI by many members of the Bauhaus including Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Marcel Breuer. The walking tour was presented in German so we just wandered around looking at the building exteriors since people have been living in the houses since the area was refurbished in the 1980's. Our last stop was the Killesberg Park - part of the "Grun U" (Green U) that surrounds a large part of the city. They have a small train that takes you around the beautiful grounds - it's a HUGE park so once we got our bearings from the train we were able to choose two gardens to visit - the dahlia garden and the beer garden...prost!
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