On the road to SteemFest 3: Visiting Stuttgart, then going to Prague
On Friday night, my brother Philippe and myself we arrived in Stuttgart, Germany.
After checking at the hotel and putting my car in a parking garage, we went to a sushi place for dinner, before going to bed.
We are not this kind of tourists that know beforehand what they want to visit and that run around taking many pictures. We just like to discover the place walking around.
The hotel where we stayed was at one end of Königstraße (King Street) that "claims to be the longest pedestrianized street in Germany" (Wikipedia).
So, after breakfast, we walked on this pedestrian street from one end to the other.
Königstraße
At some point we arrived at Stuttgart main place: Schlossplatz (Castle Square).
Schlossplatz
On this picture you can see the Neues Schloss (New Palace). The column in the middle of the square was erected on the occasion of the 25 anniversary of the ascension on the throne of king William I of Württemberg.
At the end of Königstraße, we arrived at Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, the main train station.
Inside Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof
There are major construction works near the station that are called Stuttgart 21
Stuttgart 21 is a railway and urban development project in Stuttgart, Germany. It is a part of the Stuttgart–Augsburg new and upgraded railway
Wikipedia
Coming back, we visited the Landesmuseum Württemberg (Württemberg State Museum), where we saw display about the different people that lived in south Germany starting with Neanderthal men and including the Celts, the Romans, the Franks and the Alemanni, up to modern times.
In the courtyard, we saw these two guys who were training with long swords.
In the courtyard of the Landesmuseum Württemberg
As we were traveling on Sunday, Philippe being a practicing catholic decided to go to mass Saturday night. We had found a catholic church not far from the hotel.
When we arrived for mass at around 18:00, we were a little disappointed by the decor.
Interestingly enough, the mass was in English. There were only 40 people, and the majority of them were Asians.
On Sunday morning, we left Stuttgart and went to Prague, the capital city of the Czech Republic.
It took us a long time to find our hotel, as there are many small streets in Prague and we made many mistakes trying to follow the indication of the GPS.
Prague will be the last stop before going to SteemFest3 in Kraków, Poland, on Wednesday.
Great. I will have love to also go to the steemfest but I was not able to due to financial issues and other personal reasons but I hope to go next time by God grace. I hope you enjoy yourself and I hope you have a wonderful time at steemfest
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I have heard about German a lot since when I was a kid and I will love to go oneday maybe later in the future. Have a nice time during the steemfest
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Yeah, getting to last end of the journey. Ended the journey to steemfest has been awesome from your recent post to this. Germany is a wonderful place to as I heard, I wished you were a tourist, I would have loved to see more photo shots. Journey mercies to steemfest
From the outside the church is very impressive!
Such an awesome exploration in struggart even tho you don't tour much of the city, the little walked around was an awesome experience... Those building architecture I like them.. especially that of Catholic Church and palace..
Thanks for share..@vcelier
Wish you safe journey to Steemfest3 meet-up.