Stuttgart.

The four of us set of from Stasbourg on the 12md train to leave France and enter Germany to travel to Stuttgart, so that we may visit the Mercedes Benz museum and pick up our E class Mercedes hire car.
We arrived early afternoon, checked into our hotel, then back onto the subway to go out to Esslinton for the Xmas and medieval markets.

 As it is winter in Europe it is dark from 4.30pm and not light until 0830hrs os the days are short and trying to fit everything in to daylight is difficult, so a lot of evening photos have been taken.

The markets are all very pretty and beautifully decorated, but they are all beginning to look the same.

Essenglin also had the medieval markets so this market was special.

Everyone was enjoying this bread on a stick which also has rosemary in the dough

This gentleman was selling menthol and fanning it with real wings of a bird

A great collection of old buttons, I did purchase a few special ones

This was a great little game, you bet on the mouse to go intro into your picked house number, it cost 3 euro and if the mouse picks your house you get a toy one, very innovative and a good way to make a quick buck.

The local apothecary 

Leather masks

Overall our visit to Stuttgart was brief, as it is an industrial town, but as informed by my brother our GGGf was from this area, as we have German in our ancestral tree.
The visit was for the Mercedes Benz museum and to pick up our hire care, off to Bamberg.