Stuttgart

Today we had a lazy morning then headed to spy on the Christmas markets here in Stuttgart. We had stopped here last year as well, and I remembered they had a couple vegan options I was very excited for and also a Christmas light show every half hour in the one park.
So we headed down to the market and…The main food thing I had wanted (a yeasted dumpling), they didn’t have! I was so sad, but we wandered the market and it started to get to lunchtime so we quickly went through looking at all our food options and there were so many! We ended up getting a lentil curry soup…only it came in a bread bowl so it was like barely any soup! Way too expensive for what it was as I didn’t want to just eat the bread! Oh well.

Then on to some schumpnudel which is so good! We had some in Freiburg also and it is so tasty! Good enough I did say I would come back and have it again for dinner, but by dinner time we weren’t that hungry so just made some things here. Then we also got a vegan currywurst which was really good! It came with a ton of fries, but the sausage they used was better than normal (Raymond really loved it!). So that was good.

We then went and explored the markets further as we didn’t really spy on things when we were looking for lunch and I got some cherry caramel punsch and Raymond got an apple cinnamon one, both were very good! Mine actually tasted like the things it said!

In our wanders we also found a steam powered little train for kids to ride around (in a model train area). I’m sure this was here last year, but I don’t think we realized it was actually steam powered! They were loading it with coal and then had to wait for it to get hot enough to run. That was fun.

Then we went to spy on some treat places and found one with a hazelnut cake and an apple roll and the lady had heated up the apple roll so Raymond was like why don’t we’re try it? And it was pretty good, though then I was like I’m just going to try the hazelnut one and oh man that was amazing! And very light! The was like a meringue with hazelnut cream and hazelnuts and it was really good.

After that we headed back to our place and man we didn’t get back until much later than I anticipated! I don’t remember walking around here all day last year, but it was really nice. The market overall was really good and it was so warm today!! I was only wearing a light sweater and light jacket and my light pants! Crazy! And it was sunny all day and if you were in the sun it was very warm! It was perfect for wandering!

We were going to head back down to the market this evening to see the light show…but there is none! They didn’t have any lights in that square this year :( we looked it up and it was to save money, which makes sense, but it was one of things I was most looking forward to! Oh well, at still had a great day!Read more