Day 3 - 09.08.2015

I took an ICE train from Stuttgart to Cologne. This train was completely overloaded and I decided to leave the train in Mannheim and change to an IC train. It was a good choice, because of more space and a more interesting route along the Rhein with a lot of beautiful villages. I recommend to take the IC in generell, it will take longer but its more comfortable and you see much more from the beautiful nature. The trainstation is in front of the "Kölner Dom", what an impressive welcome.

Cologne is not that nice as I expected, but maybe I chose the wrong streets. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe and this one is also not a pretty one.

 The City hast not that typical city center as Munich or Vienna. But it is still beautiful around the Cathedral "Kölner Dom" and the building itself. I also found the historical town hall of Cologne and that is a beautiful building.

It seems to be a nice city for shopping.

Day 2 - 08.08.2015

Stuttgart
As you can see in my blog, I already had been in Stuttgart. So this time I have no pics for the blog, cause I use my time for meeting friends there. I am at the Goldmarks again and its great, because its open air in front of the subway with great old Blues music from all the legends. I really like the Goldmarks.

I am at the Ibis Hotel Stuttgart City. Its a typical Ibis Hotel.

(thats it folks, the rest is private ;) )

Day 1 - 07.08.2015
It was really better to start in the morning. The train was not overloaded like the night before.
I left the train station and it seems, that Munich is not a beautiful city, but the center is really wonderful. Lots of great buildings, lots of peoples and quiet a lot of streetmusician and artists. The beer museum is just opening in the afternoon so I was walking around and visited the Hard Rock Cafe.

The Viktualienmarkt is a real market with lots of local drinks and food. Lots of natives are wearing a "Dirndl" and those typical leatherpants called "Lederhos´n", and in the middle is a big maypole.

I am also visiting the Peterskirche. A beautiful church. Well I am an atheist, but I am still impressed about the fact, that people build such big buildings for a "god".

After that the museum is open. It is about Oktoberfest and beer, of course and it is a small museum but fascinating. You should see it, it is worth to visit it.

I am walking the most of the day and it´s really a cool but old fashioned city. I love it.

There are people from all over the world and in every age. Its really worth to visit this city.

I slept in the Hotel Kavun. Funny thing, this Hotel has not its own reception. I have to go to the Hotel opposite the street for picking up my key. The Hotel itself was good, the air con works very well and the bathroom is big enough.

Starting

Every beginning needs the first step, sometimes it takes two. I tried to drive in the night to munich, but this train was completely overloaded so I drove back home. In the next morning I tried it again and it worked. Munich, I am coming.

To think. 

In this train there are lots of refugees, men, women, families. Kids sleeping on the ground. I notice few people who speaks more than one language. At the moment I learn a lot about there situation.

14th September

Afternoon
Walking through the Park of Stuttgart. What a great park, also really worth to visit it.

And that was it. The travel back was borring, nothing special happened, so I have nothing to tell about this. See ya on my next journey.

14th September

Met again one of the Lotro guys. We went to the Landesmuseum. I had luck, because at this day, there were free entrances in lots of locations in Stuttgart. So I had nothing to pay.

It is a very interesting museum and the presentation of those things were pretty tasteful. If you are in Stuttgart, its really worth to visit this museum.

13th September

Evening
I went with a friend of mine to a pub called Goldmarks. Great location with great music. I´ve never seen something like this in Vienna. Had much fun with my friend. I was tired and still I went deep in the night back to the Hotel.
Goldmarks, I will see you again.

13th September 2014

Trip to Lindau

Well, I "enjoyed" the Deutsche Bahn again. What a horrible company. We started more than 30 minutes to late and I missed my train. I had to wait in Ulm for an hour for the next train to Lindau.

Lindau is a really beautiful "town" looks like a sleeping beauty. I met a friend from the old days there and we were walking around through this city. There are a lot of big old houses, different colors, really nice. It is really a quiet place with lots of old tourists. I felt young again ;)

12th September
18:00 to 21:00

Meeting with two friends from the online game Lotro. I have seen them for the first time in real. We were also walking around in the same streets as before, looking for a nice dinner place. Found a Steakhouse called Blockhouse. Had quite big and good steaks and burgers, with enough side dishes. Was a nice evening, I enjoyed it.

12th September 2014 
10:00 to 14:00

Meeting with Ani from the sopamaker facebook group. We were walking the til 14.00 o´clock through the shopping streets of Stuttgart. I saw lots of shops for funny decorative living stuffs. Well, there were quite a lot of nice looking things, but lots of them seemed pretty useless. In this streets are a lot of other shops of course, there were all know chain stores I know, seems to be a nice shopping paradise. I also have seen a Lush for the first time of my life. It was an extreme fragrance flash.
After the tour we went to a coffee shop for a nice long chat. What a wonderful noon.