Museum day in Stuttgart

Yesterday was a museum day for us. We wandered through both the Porsche and Mercedes-Benz museum. Both had tons of amazing cars. 

Seeing the first production 911 Porsche was very cool. 

Fun fact: Mercedes began testing ABS and airbags back in 1969.

The restaurant at the Mercedes museum was really excellent. I had the cheese spatzle and it was delicious with a nice rose wine.

If you are ever in Stuttgart I highly recommend seeing both museums.

Here are our collection of tickets from each museum we have toured through, except Moto Guzzi as that museum was free.

Today we are on the road back to Frankfurt for our flight home. It's been a great trip but I do look forward to sleeping in my own bed.

A second post today....which could have many titles....

The titles in no particular order may be.....

So happy I almost (cried, danced, shouted for joy)

A month in Europe and this is the first one.....

From Frankfurt and beyond but back to Stuttgart to find.....

Those who know me, know what I like.....

All this to say I was so happy to finally have a bath tonight.

It's nothing beautiful or spa like; but that my friends is the first bath tub I have seen since leaving my home on September 29:

I love having baths and I had just accepted that for Europe this was a luxury I would have to give up till tonight and it was so nice it deserved its own post!

Como to Stuttgart

Today was our big driving day, 500plus KM to get from Lake Como area through Switzerland, a little bit of Austria and back into Germany. 

For the return trip to Germany we choose a different driving route through the Swiss Alps, we left Italy at 18 degrees, clear blue sky and sunny, within two hours our weather had changed a lot.....

The drive through the alps was so picturesque and beautiful. The temperature change was a full 18 degrees. 

Once we got through the alps we had rain the rest of the drive, and the beautiful  Italian sunshine is a memory.  We had to find our way along a detour when the highway was shut down which added an extra hour and a half into our drive today. Now we are in Stuttgart at our hotel, Gastehaus Munzmay. 

We are down to our last two nights in Europe. It's been an amazing trip! We have seen and experienced so much but I am looking forward to cooking our own food and sleeping in our own bed and not living out of a suitcase.