Stuttgart, as one might guess from the title, is not one of my favorite places. It was not even somewhere we'd intended to go, really. Unfortunately Alex lost his rail pass somewhere along the way, which meant we had to modify our plans to go through a city where he could buy a new one. Fortunately Stuttgart wasn't far from Freiburg and was on our way up to Amsterdam. Quite convenient. The plan was to stop in Stuttgart, Alex would get his pass, we'd eat dinner, chill, then hop a 1 am night train up to Amsterdam. Already had the reservation tickets and everything.
Stuttgart was a nice enough city. It had lots of pretty fountains and a nice walking area. I searched for a restaurant while Alex and Constantina stayed at the station with the bags. We ended up eating at an American-type place that was just across the street and down a little. It was good. We decided to go hang out in some park area until it was time to go back to the station. The first place we tried ended up having too many way too big cockroaches. But no problem, we just went down to the big square area I'd found earlier, which was pleasant and had benches and fountains. No problem.
Went back to the station to grab our train out. But it wasn't up on the marque. Still ok, figured it might be too early for it to be listed, but we might as well ask anyway. Turned out the train was actually for the next night, not that one. Rrgh. Very frustrating. The tickets were all in German, of course, so we couldn't read it. Wandered around for a while, indecisive, tired, eventually got to a hostel and to sleep around 3 am. The next morning we everything worked out fine, ended up taking a day train up instead. Just an irritating thing to have to deal with.
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