Stuttgart

OK. Just to get an idea of Stuttgart our hotel and the Porsche factory are in the industrial section so there was a lack of food and drink around, we got into Stuttgart at like 10:30 when the grocery stores were closed and we made a mad dash around to try and find a Döner or something before they closed. We found a guy that told us to get off at the next subway stop and there will be food but we didn't want to pay for the subway so we decided to walk… bad idea! We must have walked down the road and subway tracks for a good 2 miles before we found anything that resembled light and civilization! But while crossing the S-bahn line Jeff sees off in the distance a flashing blue open sign so we run to the stand… When we get there the owner has already taken the meat off the spinner and only saved enough meat for one Döner, but he made us up some French fries and we all shared in the small feast! When we are almost finished the owner comes out to ask us where we were staying... we tell him and he asks us if are going to take the train back... and of course we say yes. He then informs us that i will come in 1 minute!!! So we throw our chairs back into there stack and clean off the table and start sprinting back to the S-bahn stop and we realize that we need the train on the otherside of the station as its just pulling up... So again we sprint up the stairs and over a foot bridge about two stories high and run for the train! I make it to the very last step and trip, falling on the knees and hip skidding about 7-10 feet on my knees and jump up and still make it on the train, however Jeff wasnt that lucky and just as he was about to stick his arm through the door, they slam shut and he is left there waiting 30 minutes for the next train, so this is just to let you get the same feeling of Stuttgart that we had the first 3 hours we were there!



But on the cars!!! I, of course, liked the Porsche museum better due to the fact that its VW’S first cousin and both were made by the same man. And yes the museum had an old vw beetle in it just to show the connection between the two cars and the man, Ferdinand Porsche. I thought that all the cars were very interesting and they had some super early rare Porsche there, many being the same ones that Ferdinand and Ferry Porsche drove, which was really cool.










Then we were off to the Mercedes museum which was a beautiful building set on a little hill so that it stood up higher than the surrounding buildings, and it was a neat double helix design that was fun to walk through. It also had a smoke removal system that was really cool and i think the first building to ever have something like it. This double helix design basically looked like a cam shaft with two sets of lobes being offset like on a camshaft of a four stroke engine.