Hohenzollern Castle
Photo / May. 15, 2011
Rose garden
Photo / May. 14, 2011
Tübingen part 2
Photo / May. 13, 2011
Carmen Sandiego is still MIA, but we found her coat.
There were lots of people renting these boats. One group even had a little hibachi which seems, um, less than safe for a wooden boat.
Tübingen part 1
Photo / May. 13, 2011
About an hour south of Stuttgart is Tübingen, a picturesque college town filled with historic buildings, winding streets, and cute shops and cafés.
Doug and Sven wait patiently while I run around the platz taking photos.
Ritter Sport
Photo / May. 13, 2011
We stopped by the Ritter Sport factory on the way to Tübingen. They have a cute shop that sells all their myriad flavors and a tiny museum to tell the history of the company.
The big gay beer tent
Photo / May. 12, 2011
One night of the Stuttgart fest the gays don their lederhosen and take over the giant beer tent. Like a good beer tent, all the seating is benches. Not that you’re sitting much anyway — most of the time you stand on your sliver of bench seat and drink beer after beer. The bands and music are kitschy and fun, and by your second liter of beer everyone is your new best friend. Ziga zaga! Ziga zaga! Oi! Oi! Oi!
Dupont Circle fountain
Photo / May. 4, 2011
At the races
Photo / May. 1, 2011
Jeff and Russ were kind enough to invite me to accompany them to the Middleburg Hunt races on Sunday. Russ’s kind friends had a primo spot on the rail and a lovely tailgate set up. The weather was less than perfect (you can see the rain in some of the photos,) but we happily sipped cocktails, and munched on fried chicken and tenderloin, and cheered the tiny, funny-dressed men on horseback nonetheless.
