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2023 Croatia/Germany
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- Sep 30, 2023, 10:45am
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 219 m
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Waiblingen 48.835188, 9.31711248°50’7” N 9°19’2” E
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Day 12
Visiting Gerhard in Waiblingen
September 30, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Yesterday we flew to Munich, rented a car and drove to a suburb of Stuttgart to spend a few days with an old friend! Gerhard and Davor met when they were students at the Technical University of Munich in 1974! I first met Gerhard and his wife when we moved to Munich in Dec 1979. We really hit it off and have remained close friends. Unfortunately Gerhard’s wife, Heike, had a brain tumor and slowly went downhill for 13 yrs. She died almost 10 years ago. It’s always sweet for the 3 of us to come together and reminisce about Heike and the times we shared and I think it’s comforting for Gerhard too.
The first pic is Davor and Gerhard! He lives in an apt near downtown so we walked down to the market this morning. Pics 2-6 are pics downtown. The next 3 are of the old city wall.
In the afternoon we went to a nearby village where Gerhard and Heike used to live. Their house was on the edge of a vineyard where we would often walk. So the 3 of us did that today! The grapes are ripe, and some have already been picked. There was an art exhibit in the middle of the vineyard! The first pic of the 5 women is called “The Women of Persil”. Persil is a detergent, that’s why their collars are so white. The second art pic is of heads made out of plaster by high school students!
At the edge of the vineyard was a beer garden so we stopped for some food and a beer!

Highlight of the day: the joy of being with an old friend!Read more
Traveler How fun!
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Traveler This is just what I imagine Germany would look like! My only first hand experience is the Frankfort airport ...
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Traveler This looks amazing!! Missing those Biergartens.
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2023 Croatia/Germany
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- Sep 29, 2023
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 226 m
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Waiblingen 48.835966, 9.3156748°50’9” N 9°18’56” E
Day 11
Leaving Croatia
September 29, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
We left Split and Croatia. I think it was hard for Davor to leave Croatia…..
Before driving to the airport we went down to the beach that we could see from our Airbnb balcony. It’s a popular beach in the area because of the fine sand.
Pic 1 was taken down at the beach looking up at our Airbnb! If you zoom in, that white house on the hill with the laundry hanging out was where we were. We were in the floor below the laundry.
The rest of the pics are at the beach and the views of the passing boats, yachts!
Late afternoon we flew from Split to Munich. Split was such an easy airport. Our luggage was about
5 lbs overweight, each of them! We were going to be charged $150 for each but then the lady had sympathy on us! That was nice since we’d already gotten a couple parking tickets in Split! For security we scanned our boarding passes. Because Croatia is part of the EU it was a “domestic” flight. They’d checked our passports at luggage checkin. As our stuff went thru the
X-ray machines at security someone must have been looking at them remotely because there was only a person at the very end to pull your bag and talk to you if they saw something. We had to board the plane outside but they had a front and back door of the plane open so boarding went quickly! In a country where there are no self checkouts at the grocery store or the gas station….the airport was amazingly efficient!!
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2023 Croatia/Germany
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- Oct 2, 2023, 10:55am
- ☀️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 227 m
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Waiblingen 48.826172, 9.3274748°49’34” N 9°19’39” E
Day 14
A relaxing day in Waiblingen
October 2, 2023 in Germany ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Gerhard has been in a rowing club since he was
14 yrs old. I’ve always known this was a big part of his life so I told him I wanted to see his boat. We walked a couple miles along the Rems River
(pic #1) in Waiblingen, to the boathouse (pic 2). He showed us the 4 man boats and oars (pic 3&4). Pic 5 is Gerhard’s one person boat. He paddles with club members several times a week.
On the walk back we stopped at a beer garden for lunch. We had “weisswurst”, a veal sausage that is white, you peel off the outer skin. Tradition has it that weisswurst should be eaten before noon! We had weisswurst with sweet German mustard, a pretzel and of course a beer, I had my radler. The relaxed atmosphere of the beer garden invites you to sit back and just enjoy life, enjoy the weather, and for Davor and Gerhard it was a chance to reminisce about fun times in their friendship. It was also a sweet time to talk about Gerhard’s sweet wife, Heike. The last pic is of one of the decorative entrances to Waiblingen.

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pietromobil 2016.10 Herbst am Gardasee
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- Sep 29, 2016, 8:00pm
- 🌙 20 °C
- Altitude: 222 m
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Waiblingen 48.830806, 9.32150848°49’51” N 9°19’17” E
Day 1
Waiblingen - Altstadt
September 29, 2016 in Germany ⋅ 🌙 20 °C
Danach gings in die nahe Altstadt, wo wir uns mit Chris und Tanja zum Abendessen trafen. Die angehängten Bilder sind von der Altstadt von Waiblingen.

Bald waren wir wieder am Stellplatz zurück. Hier trafen wir noch ein älteres Ehepaar aus den USA, die fahren jedes Jahr für etliche Wochen durch Europa, in Italien haben sie ihr WoMo gekauft und auch untergestellt, so sparen sie sich die Transportkosten von und nach Übersee..Read more
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- Oct 3, 2022
- ⛅ 15 °C
- Altitude: 224 m
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Waiblingen 48.830719, 9.32165948°49’51” N 9°19’18” E
Day 4
Waiblingen
October 3, 2022 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C
Damit es zu den Canstatter Wasen nicht mehr so weit ist, wollten wir bis nach Fellbach fahren. Schrecklicher Stellplatz , eng und voll. Nichts wie weg hier. Wir versuchen es in Waiblingen. Hier ist es groß und wir bekommen einen schönen Platz . Nebenan befindet sich ein Park und fußläufig geht es in eine sehr schöne Altstadt. Viele Menschen nutzen den Feiertag und der goldene Oktober lässt zusätzlich grüßen. Wir sind auch sehr lange unterwegs und genießen das schöne Wetter.Read more
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Traveler Hallo so schöne Bilder. Wir waren auch schon da aber leider diese Ecken nicht gesehen.
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Traveler Ist richtig schön hier
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pietromobil 2016.10 Heuchelheim Junghof
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- Oct 13, 2016, 1:00pm
- ⛅ 10 °C
- Altitude: 246 m
- Germany Baden-Württemberg Region Waiblingen 48.830996, 9.31520648°49’52” N 9°18’55” E
Day 1
Waiblingen - Pizzaessen mit Chris
October 13, 2016 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
Kurztrip ins Weingut Jung

Nachdem unser Riesling Vorrat zur Neige ging, machte ich mich nochmals auf den Weg Richtung Westen in "unser" Weingut Jung in Heuchelheim-Klingen. Eigentlich war diese Fahrt ja vor zwei Wochen geplant gewesen, aufgrund des damals schlechten Wetters fuhren wir ja wie berichtet an den Gardasee. Moni musste arbeiten, also machte ich mich allein auf den Weg.

Auf der Hinfahrt gings zunächst nach Waiblingen, Chris besuchen. Die Route war mit dem Navi schnell geplant und los gings. Nur die Ankunftszeit verwirrte mich, 4 Stunden bis Stuttgart, das kann doch nicht sein? Bald war jedoch der "Fehler" gefunden, das Navi zeigt die Ankunftszeit am Zielort, nicht am nächsten Zwischen-Stop. Mittags eine kleine Pizza mit Chris in Waiblingen, dann gings auf der Standardroute über die A8 nach Karlsruhe. Da vor Karlsruhe Stau war, fuhr ich einfach auf die A5 Richtung Basel und dann L605 zurück nach Karlsruhe, Stau umgangen..Read more
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