So. We are in Berlin, having driven most of the day, ditched the rental car and found our flat. We've no doubt bored you by raving about this hotel/apartment, so I'll spare you. Tomorrow we do some sightseeing and maybe some of our party will nap (I mean the parents).
Stuttgart is a lovely town, and we very much enjoyed finishing our visit with friends on their turf. Their neighborhood is full of modern and historic buildings, markets and bakeries that you walk to, and parks close by. Even if you don't care about cars all that much, the Porshe and Mercedes museums are really interesting (though, I like cars, so maybe I don't know any better). At the Mercedes museum, they also have nice things for kids to do:
And things for people who think they are kids.
We also decided that being in Bavaria, we should invade a castle. And there was one available - sitting on top of a hill and everything.
This is the Hohenzollern Castle, a Prussian castle built between 1846 - 1867. This is the third version of the castle, the first one having been destroyed in a siege and the second one fallen victim to "disrepair." How undignified for a castle. Nobody lives here now; it's used as a ceremonial site for family events like the christening of the prince and princess's twin sons (the day after we visited). No pictures of the inside, but here's a couple from outside.
Alrighty then.
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