Today I set out for my trip to Croatia. Had to drive south through Germany, Austria, Slovenia.
Love the castle on the mountain top!


 

The infamous Trabant.....

Today I went to rubble mountain in Stuttgart, (the remains of the bombed buildings were piled on top of each other and filled with earth and trees to create an artificial mountain.)
Next thing you know, I saw a Trabant for the first time. It is a cold war symbol of the former GDR (East Germany). It rarely worked very well, and everyone in East Germany had one. It was also exported to other Eastern Bloc Countries. I wish the sun hadnt been shining in this photo as a cloudy day would better symbolise the grey , colourless world of the GDR.
The Trabant's body panels were made of duroplast, which is plastic containing resin mixed with cotton! The reason for my fascination with this car is because of U2`s album "Achtung Baby" which shows the band riding in a Trabant in the albums artwork.

They also had 10 trabants suspended above them for their multi media Zoo TV tour. 

World Cup - Stuttgart ist viel schöner als Berlin!!!!

This is all of us in Stuttgarts town centre, to watch the video screens for the world cup.

A lot of national pride!

Germany won against Portugal.