{"id":6859,"date":"2007-05-08T11:17:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T01:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/stuttgart\/"},"modified":"2013-01-20T20:42:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-20T10:42:15","slug":"stuttgart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2007\/05\/08\/stuttgart\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuttgart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After flying all Saturday from Tokyo to Stuttgart we woke up to a sunny Sonntag in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<p>We bumped into Luke and Andr\u00c3\u00a9 at the hotel, and headed into Stuttgart proper with them to just sort of hang around. We walked a bit and took a few pics, then settled in for some solid beer and pizza at the schlossplatz.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the arvo we got enthusiastic and walked southish up a hill to catch a view. We were going to get icecream but the queue was insane. Eventually we headed back to the platz for a coffee in the rapidly cooling evening. A really nice chill out day.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime midweek Arnd drove Jeremy, Andr\u00c3\u00a9 and I up to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fernsehturm_Stuttgart\">Fernsehturm<\/a>. The view was awesome, I did a <a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/photos\/websize\/2007\/03\/08\/stuttgart-pano.jpg\">panorama<\/a> which I really like. It was pretty chilly generally, but 150 metres above the ground it was <em>really<\/em> chilly. Brrrrrrr.<\/p>\n<p>I also headed out one night with Christian to a rockclimbing place in town. It was this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityrock.de\/\">insanely busy tiny little gym<\/a>, with some really great routes. They even let you lead climb, it was awesome. I hadn&#8217;t been climbing for a while, but I wasn&#8217;t too terrible. I did a couple of nice routes, but backed off a few times before piking on a massively overhanging lead route, it was good practice for backing off on lead at least \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Afterward we had a few beers at the gym (rock!), and then headed to the Oblomov for another. Unfortunately we made a minor timing mistake and I missed the last train back to B\u00c3\u00b6blingen &#8211; the train workers at the station thought it was very funny when I asked in bad German &#8220;the train didn&#8217;t just leave did it&#8221;, oops.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re stuck in Stuttgart overnight there&#8217;s not much to do other than go back to the pub, which isn&#8217;t all bad! Sometime in the wee hours we headed back to Christian&#8217;s apartment, where we needed to <a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/photos\/websize\/2007\/03\/09\/Image078.jpg\">break in<\/a> due to a lack of keys, except we couldn&#8217;t manage it &#8211; so we ended up waking up his housemate instead, sorry!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After flying all Saturday from Tokyo to Stuttgart we woke up to a sunny Sonntag in Stuttgart. We bumped into Luke and Andr\u00c3\u00a9 at the hotel, and headed into Stuttgart proper with them to just sort of hang around. We walked a bit and took a few pics, then settled in for some solid beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[24,13,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6859\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}