Germany is my first Onsite visit, like most of the software engineers in india, It was also my dream to travel in Flights. I know all of you will accept that Burning your pocket for a luxurious travel in Lufthansa is not affordable to middle class family.
But a similar offer for a Corporate office will be Exiting you..
Yes, i was given a onsite job by my Company to Germany.. My office is in Stuttgart which is one of best places i have visited. It no need to explain about a first time travel in Flight, and that too landing on one of the biggest Airports like Frankfurt.. Bufferflies were flying full time when i sat in the flight and till i reached Stuttgart.
Life is Stuttgart is very calm and quite during winter, and its fun and exiting during the summer. The only major concern for a indian like me is to see that the streets are seen empty just after 6 or 6.30 in the evening.
Ok, here are the information which i wanted to tell you if you are visting Stuttgart by any chance.
The Hotels in Stuttgart are bit costly if you want to stay in some nice hotels , and its affordable in 2 or 3 start hotels. But if you have planned or you wanted to stay in stuttgart for a week or more than than, the best thing to do is to rent a apartment. There are many agencies running in stuttgart which gives you fully furnished aparments with affordable rate even for 1 week. The most advantage of this is you can cook your own delicisous home made food, there by saving every penny. Use this website http://www.night-and-day.de/ to check for the availabity of the apartments in different areas, if you know where your office is then you can even filter out for the areas. But Dont worry Stuttgart is well connected or has excellent Train facility, its called Bahn in German, you have S-Bahn which are fast trains and U-Bahn which are bit slow rains. Between two extreme locations of Stuttgart you can reach in maximum 45 min.
Attached image you can see the train map of Stuttgart S-Bahn Train.
Getting down at the stopping Schwabsraze you will find Indian market, to buy all groceries starting from rice, dhaall, vegetables etc.
Best time to visit Stuttgart is during the summer, espicially during April to October. October makes me to remember the october festival which will be taking place. The Beer festival one can never forget in his life time.. Lots of stall and lots of fun. Never miss it if you are in Stuttgart during october.
From Entertainment point of view, Stuttgart is little boring place. You can spend nice time if you have a good internet connection at home, (T-Mobile offers cheap wireless internet connections). If you like to play cricket during week ends then take S1 Train and get down at Esslingen, if you roam around esslingen and ask any youth roaming around for the ground, they will show you the path and definelty you will find some of your native friends playing cricket and foot ball.
There are only few place to be seen in stuttgart
1. Tv Tower
2. Ludwisburg Castle
3. Wilhelma zoo (Never miss it)
4. Mercedes-Benz museum (must go place but will cost you 10 - 15 Euros)
5. Porche museum , The newly constructed which attarcts many.
If you take monthy train ticket like our Season tickets in india, then you dont have to worry, but please be aware for the Zones which you have taken ticket. Because i have seen many times you tickets being checked in the train and many times peoples are fined for taking ticket for only 2 Zones and entering 3rd or other zones.
From Stuttgart by using Baden-Wuttenberg ticket you can go around many places.. I will tell you those details in my next blog.
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