SATURDAY
Saturday morning we enjoyed breakfast at the hotel and then headed off to the Mercedes Benz Museum. I spent a lot of time trying to decide if I wanted to go to the Benz museum or the Porche museum. In the end, since I'm not a huge car person, I figured that Benz had more history attached to it and that that would be the most interesting.
The whole weekend we traveled using a combination of the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn. We were lucky because that weekend there was a special on tickets so any ticket you bought was good for double time, so we bought a daily group ticket which was good for Saturday and Sunday.
The museum is located outside of the city a bit, but is easily reachable by public transportation.
The very first thing we saw was this...some sort of moon-rover / monster truck. The first thing I thought was that Mercedes and John Deere must have worked together.
The museum itself was so cool, a great record of the progression of the car over the years. The museum started at the top of the building and you worked your way down.
The very first thing you saw was a statue of a horse, with a quote from Kaiser Wilhelm II, "I believe in the horse. The automobile is no more than a transitory phenomenon." Shows that the museum director has a sense of humor!
I had a really fun time taking pictures of the Mercedes symbols on the cars, which will come as no surprise...
This was the car used by the last Emperor of Austria (whose palace I visited in Vienna). He lived out the remainder of his life in Germany after he refused to abdicate. Benz made him a special car with his crest on it.
Other fun car pictures:
The museum was also in a really pretty part of the countryside, and you could see the vineyards on the hills from the museum. The stripes are from the skin on the outside of the building. The football fields (for you Americans out there, soccer) are where the Stuttgart team practices.
After the museum, we headed farther out from Stuttgart, to a smaller city, which is in the hills, just like the picture above. The city had a castle that had some great views.
The two church towers were built at different times which is why they have such different styles.
This part of Germany grows a lot of grapes. It was really similar to the area Kristin and I visited in Austria.
Saturday morning we enjoyed breakfast at the hotel and then headed off to the Mercedes Benz Museum. I spent a lot of time trying to decide if I wanted to go to the Benz museum or the Porche museum. In the end, since I'm not a huge car person, I figured that Benz had more history attached to it and that that would be the most interesting.The whole weekend we traveled using a combination of the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn. We were lucky because that weekend there was a special on tickets so any ticket you bought was good for double time, so we bought a daily group ticket which was good for Saturday and Sunday.
The museum is located outside of the city a bit, but is easily reachable by public transportation.
The very first thing we saw was this...some sort of moon-rover / monster truck. The first thing I thought was that Mercedes and John Deere must have worked together. 
The very first thing you saw was a statue of a horse, with a quote from Kaiser Wilhelm II, "I believe in the horse. The automobile is no more than a transitory phenomenon." Shows that the museum director has a sense of humor!
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| I was excited about the reflection on this one! |
This was the car used by the last Emperor of Austria (whose palace I visited in Vienna). He lived out the remainder of his life in Germany after he refused to abdicate. Benz made him a special car with his crest on it.
Other fun car pictures:
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| Hi Margaret! |
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| Pope-mobile! |
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| From the racing section of the museum |
The two church towers were built at different times which is why they have such different styles.
This part of Germany grows a lot of grapes. It was really similar to the area Kristin and I visited in Austria. And that was basically Saturday. We had ice cream for dinner. =) German ice cream is excellent!
Sunday in the next post because I have to get some work done!
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