Stuttgart Experience

Stuttgart

Advantages: Great city
Disadvantages: It's far from here lol

...recently spent 8 days in Stuttgart as part of an exchange, and really loved the city and all it had to offer. Most of what I loved about it was the other towns and places that they had in the area, which I will talk about in more detail below. *Stuttgart town centre* To be honest, I didn't spend a great deal of time in Stuttgart itself, although I did spend a long time in one of the many Starbucks they had. The main shopping street, Koenigstrasse, ...
...that really impressed me about Stuttgart was the public transport and how clean and reliable it was. I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, and I thought that our Metro was good, but in Stuttgart their S-Bahn and U-bahn are much cheaper, run very often and go all over the surrounding area. The family I was staying with lived in a town called Marbach several miles out of Stuttgart, but it was easy to get to town everyday on the S-bahn. There was only one ...

charlsayslol 03.04.2008 · Read full review
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Wine, Ballet & Arts or Beer,Benz & Sauerkraut ?

Advantages: Lots to do and to see for every taste
Disadvantages: none

...The natives of Stuttgart are called Schwaben (Swabians). You can recognize them easily as soon as they open their mouth. The Swabians have a very strong dialect and even if you've learned German to a higher degree, you might still find it hard to understand. Most of the younger generations and many of the older, are able to speak at least some English, so you shouldn't have too many problems with the language. Stuttgart itself seems to the visitor ...
...during a visit to Stuttgart will probably be the main station, as nearly all the relevant tram, over - and underground lines are passing from here, as well as the railway. The Hauptbahnhof, as the main station is called, is a quite prominent feature of the city, with its tower, that bears a rotating Mercedes Star on the top. Yes, for all those who haven't known so far, Stuttgart is the home of Mercedes. Also of Porsche and Bosch, and you might ...

fritzthecat 27.03.2006 · Read full review
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The People's Festival

Advantages: It's like Disneyland, but with beer
Disadvantages: Crowded public transport and hangovers

...purpose of my trip to Stuttgart was to visit the Volksfest with my family. Having lived in Stuttgart for two years, and knowling the city intimately, they said that the best time for me to visit was during this 3-weekend period (from the last weekend of September to the 2nd weekend of October) when an enormous tarmac space by the Canstatter park is taken over by one of the biggest mobile fairgrounds in Europe and beer tents big enough to seat 5,500 ...
...We flew out to Stuttgart with British Airways from Heathrow, and found the flight quick and simple. The ongoing dispute with Gate Gourmet who provide British Airways' food meant that there were no snacks on board the plane, but we were given a voucher to spend at the airport restaurants instead. Stuttgart airport itself is very close to the city, and it is very easy to travel in using the public transport system (the S-Bahn and U-Bahn). A variety ...

eddybennet 10.10.2005 · Read full review
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Porches, Mercedes and more importantly Beer

Advantages: Small is good for this festival
Disadvantages: What apart from a hangover??

...to learn too much about Stuttgart itself from this review. If truth were told I could hardly remember half the time I spent in the City. That's not to say I didn't have a good time or enjoy the place - to the contrary. I shall explain. My reason for visiting this fine city was not to explore the shops of Koenigstrasse, climb the TV Tower or find out the inner workings of a Porsche or Mercedes for that matter. No the reason was the "Cannstatter Volksfest". ...
...heard about the Volkfest. The Stuttgart version happens at pretty much the same time, 2 weeks including the end of September into the beginning of October. Now calling the Volkfest a beer festival is not entirely true, and the same can be said about Munich I am sure. At the end of the day a Volkfest is I guess a peoples festival with fairground type rides with the added bonus of (as it would appear at most German festivals) beer tents. So in an English ...

Pookie_Rabbit 15.10.2004 · Read full review
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One Day In Stuttgart

Advantages: nice city, nice surroundings
Disadvantages: the dialect of the people, but if you don't know German anyway, why bother

...to all people arriving what Stuttgart stands for worldwide: car industry! On the one hand the Swabians are very proud of their reputation as the nation’s tinkers and inventors (Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch), on the other hand they want to stress that there’s more to the city, better: wanted to stress. Up to around 20 years ago the slogan for Stuttgart was: ‘City between woods and vineyards’ (You can see a vineyard right beside ...
...on 22nd April 1977, the Stuttgart ‘Star Theatre’, though, as it was formerly called, had already been opened in 1928, one of the first worldwide (the first ever was in Munich). It was destroyed during the WW2. The first show starts at 10 a.m, you can meet us afterwards at the Pavilion on the Schlossplatz (Palace Square) at 12.15; you get there walking out of the station (cross the street parallel to it via the subway), the street in ...

MALU 13.05.2003 · Read full review
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