After Prague on Monday we spent the night in Stuttgart. From there I departed from the Battens. I took a train up to Karlsrhue to visit my German friend Anette. We met her and her husband and their 3 children in Las Vegas through my sister around 8 years ago. They moved back to Germany a couple of years ago into a really neat house. It seemed silly to be a train ride away from an old friend and not just do it! We spent the rainy day talking in her home while she prepared me some delicious German meals. Then she took me back to the train station to send me on my way to Albstadt. It took 2 trains, a bus and a walk on a dirt path to find my hotel, but I did! Luckily the Batten’s dropped my luggage (and bike) off at my hotel so I wasn’t hauling all of that around Germany!
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| Huge change of scenery from the Czech Republic! (Train station in Stuttgart) |
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| My first Germans in Germany! |
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| Anette and Erica in Karlsrhue |
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| Castle on the way into Albstadt |
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| The empty train station near the end of my journey (where do I go now?) |
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| Pathway in Albstadt to my hotel |
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| Slug on the path |