Sunday 23 January 2011
Stuttgart, Badem-Württemberg. I have had problems getting on the internet since Tuesday, hence the late postings of some of these blog entries. Having finally found a café with a usable WiFi connection, I found that my Mail program had got itself in knots and had to be untied. In the process I lost all my prepared blog entries and took another 24 hours to recover them. Here thay are at last. After a lie-in and the struggle with the technical problems my friend and I finally set off out of Stuttgart, first to the see the small 'lustschloβ' (leisure palace) called Solitude built in Rococo style by Count Carl Eugen von Württemberg in 1763-1769. It has a 13km straight road down to the Residenzschloβ (royal seat of residence palace) in Ludwigsburg, which is the largest baroque castle in Germany built between 1704 and 1733 by Count Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg. After a brief hot chocolate at Scloβ Monrepos, another former palace, now a hotel, we went to Ludwigsburg itself. The whole town of Ludwigsburg is laid out to a detailed plan organised on a rectangular grid with a planned coordination of building exteriors - even MacDonalds! In the afternoon we returned to Stuttgart in time for a charity concert in a church by the Stuttgart-based Barbara Bürkle jazz quintet. I have never seen an audience of several hundred listen so seriously to a song about a duck quacking! Went into a local coffee house afterwards and I tried the local specialty 'false' coffee called Muggefuck. It's made of corn, apparently.
Stuttgart, Badem-Württemberg. I have had problems getting on the internet since Tuesday, hence the late postings of some of these blog entries. Having finally found a café with a usable WiFi connection, I found that my Mail program had got itself in knots and had to be untied. In the process I lost all my prepared blog entries and took another 24 hours to recover them. Here thay are at last. After a lie-in and the struggle with the technical problems my friend and I finally set off out of Stuttgart, first to the see the small 'lustschloβ' (leisure palace) called Solitude built in Rococo style by Count Carl Eugen von Württemberg in 1763-1769. It has a 13km straight road down to the Residenzschloβ (royal seat of residence palace) in Ludwigsburg, which is the largest baroque castle in Germany built between 1704 and 1733 by Count Eberhard Ludwig von Württemberg. After a brief hot chocolate at Scloβ Monrepos, another former palace, now a hotel, we went to Ludwigsburg itself. The whole town of Ludwigsburg is laid out to a detailed plan organised on a rectangular grid with a planned coordination of building exteriors - even MacDonalds! In the afternoon we returned to Stuttgart in time for a charity concert in a church by the Stuttgart-based Barbara Bürkle jazz quintet. I have never seen an audience of several hundred listen so seriously to a song about a duck quacking! Went into a local coffee house afterwards and I tried the local specialty 'false' coffee called Muggefuck. It's made of corn, apparently.
Schloβ Solitude
Schloβ Solitude
Schloβ Solitude
Schloβ Solitude
Ludwigsburg from Schloβ Solitude
Schloβ Monrepos
Schloβ Monrepos
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg
Ludwigsburg
Stuttgart - Barbara Bürkle Quintett
Stuttgart - Barbara Bürkle Quintett
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