We Arrived!

We are here in Stuttgart, Germany staying with Mariana and Geoff (Brian's friends from Cal Poly). After a long plane ride, and a fun EuRail train ride we have settled in the past day and a half. Mariana and Geoff have been fantastic hosts. After they picked us up yesterday at the train station we went to their favorite hot spot to have Doner Food (aka Turkish dishes that are sort of like gyro). Yummm..... Today, Thursday we woke up and walked down to the local bakery, picked up a delicious loaf of bread and shared it at the breakfast table in Mariana and Geoffs apartment three stories up in this fabulous village called Schonaich, Germany. We joined them on a day trip to a town called Landstuhl where they found some furniture for their future home back in the states. We got to explore the town for a few hours walking around and appreciating the buildings and doorways. On our ride home we were both so jet-lagged we fell asleep for the rest of the two hour ride "home" back to Schonaich. This village is beautiful and surrounded by fabulous farm land. Mariana informed us there are about four churches within this town and we hear the church bells going off throughout the day.


Traveling makes you realize the beauty of spontaneous adventures. When we were in Frankfurt our plan was to make train reservations from Stuttgart, Germany to St Jean de Porto, France on Sunday, but the trains were full. We looked at a map of Europe and thought Nice, France would be a great place to visit. We booked tickets there. Spontaneous adventures are some of the best things about traveling with a "loose" itinerary. We are excited to see a city we weren't planning on seeing, but we still need to figure out how to get to St. Jean de Porto. Maybe tomorrow we will be able to figure that one out...




Brian & Jasmine