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My first trip to Germany (April 2017)

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So after living it up in the Caribbean, I needed to go somewhere this month to hit my target of travelling somewhere every month in 2017. But it had to be somewhere that wouldn’t impact too hard on the purse strings. So I couldn’t refuse a 2 night free hotel stay in Stuttgart . I had always imagined my first trip to Germany would be Berlin so travelling to this lesser known city initially threw me. Less than an hour and a half flight was the first plus. Came painfully close to missing the flight (Euro Wings) due to a bad accident which closed the motorway but praise God I made it.   Le Meridian allowed an early check in which was great so after dumping the bags in the room, the first stop was The Mercedes Museum.  Interesting enough it’s not normally opened on Mondays but as this was Easter Monday, it was opened for the day. To my surprise I spent a lot longer here than intended. Not remotely interested in cars but what I liked was that the exhibit related to what was going...