Wednesday, another lazy day.  It is Sabina’s last day with us as she is heading back to Munich tonight, back to work tomorrow although she is encouraging us to head over to Munich for a couple of days before we head up to Holland. We spend the day relaxing around Lauffen.  Had this fantastic icecream at the local parlour, just the sort of place we need for Wellington’s hot days.

Sabrina decided she was going to leave in the morning (3am) and go straight to work.

Thursday I needed to go to the bank so we headed into Heilbronn after another big lunch from Rudi, yummy pork cutlets, that guy just keeps cooking and cooking and not little meals either.  Last night we had these really nice steaks. We went and had a look at the shop where Erica used to work and where Jens still works, a super shop of outdoor camping and caravans and stuff, Hetzog in kirchheim. We then drove to Ludwigsburg  to look at an Ikea shop.  Well this was something else again, the size of it was unbelievable, we are talking acres and an even bigger car park which in the weekend is totally packed apparently.

Friday and we are off to Stuggart to visit the Porsche and Mercedes museums.  They were both pretty fantastic places with so much to see.  Porsche was all about the cars where as so was Mercedes but they interwove the story with what was happening around them,  Obviously Stuggart and the surrounding area played a very important part in the development of the petrol (and diesel for that matter) engine and the automotive industry.  It was all very interesting and took the whole day.  We ate dinner at the Stuttgart Football Club where according to Margaret they had decent sized wine glasses.

A big day, home about 9:30, tomorrow we are off to Munich.
Ferdinardo Porsche’s first car design.  Interesting that his early interest was about electric motors.