Meeting Barbara in Stuttgart

When we talked about meeting up with cousin Barbara we decided on Stuttgart. There is a interesting museum by Merceds Benz that combines cars and history and a famous Christmas market in Esslingen.
None of us had been to museum before which covers the time from the 1880'es until now with many cars and lots of information about the different time periods.

Little side exhibitions cover buses, trucks, police cars, ambulances and other vehicles besides passenger cars

Some of the cars could also be in a design or art museum

A look into the futures includes of course computers

Then it was time to leave and Mia of course tried to make a little race out of it

  Three S-Bahn stops away on the river Neckar was the historic town of Esslingen

 The Christmas marked there was really crowded  on a Sunday afternoon

Another cold day that called fr a hot Glühwein to warm up a bit

Mia wanted to try the rides at the section with the theme from the middle ages

A surprise music performance

It turned dark around 5 pm and got even colder

At the train station we had a look at an historic train with a steam engine

Was kind of nice to stand next to hot steam engine on a cold winter night - nut then the local train was also nice and warm inside