Where's Bertie? He's back in the same location he spent the night of 22 June: in a public car park at Stuttgart University (which is a lot nicer than it sounds from that description!).
Weather: Sunny intervals and warm - much warmer than the weather forecast suggested.
After tea last night, just as Mick was on the phone to his mum, the wind picked up. Then it picked up some more. Within minutes, Bertie was bouncing around (even though it was coming from behind - Bertie's most wind-stable side) and trees were bending over. Then came the rain, which lashed and lashed. Half an hour later, the sky was clear and all was calm. The rest of last night's forecast rain didn't arrive, which is perhaps why it hasn't been as cool today as forecast.
Again, there's not a lot to report from today. The best news is that I won't need to trouble myself to do laundry (other than maybe rinsing through my running gear) again this trip. It was a double bonus that I hit 'happy hour' at the laundrette (it's cheaper between 6-11am) and that there was a sale* on, so it cost just €2.90 to get a load washed and dried, which offset the €1.30 we had to pay to park nearby. The parking location was a bonus too, as it meant I could nip back to Bertie for a quick cup of coffee during the wash cycle.
It was lunchtime as we made our way back out of Stuttgart, to come and park at the university. I took a walk around the campus earlier and from the number of student-aged people around, I'm guessing that term has started, although our little corner is as quiet as it was on our previous visit.
The only other activity of the day was a walk down through the adjacent forest, to a set of three lakes, making a circuit of one of them. A pretty (and quite popular) place:
(*A laundrette having a sale?! I've run a number of rationales for such a thing through my head, and most of them don't stand up to the logic of price vs demand. My best guess is that they're undercutting the next nearest laundrette, which (based on Google's photos and reviews of the two establishments) is the one I would have gone for, if we had been able to park near it.)
Weather: Sunny intervals and warm - much warmer than the weather forecast suggested.
After tea last night, just as Mick was on the phone to his mum, the wind picked up. Then it picked up some more. Within minutes, Bertie was bouncing around (even though it was coming from behind - Bertie's most wind-stable side) and trees were bending over. Then came the rain, which lashed and lashed. Half an hour later, the sky was clear and all was calm. The rest of last night's forecast rain didn't arrive, which is perhaps why it hasn't been as cool today as forecast.
Again, there's not a lot to report from today. The best news is that I won't need to trouble myself to do laundry (other than maybe rinsing through my running gear) again this trip. It was a double bonus that I hit 'happy hour' at the laundrette (it's cheaper between 6-11am) and that there was a sale* on, so it cost just €2.90 to get a load washed and dried, which offset the €1.30 we had to pay to park nearby. The parking location was a bonus too, as it meant I could nip back to Bertie for a quick cup of coffee during the wash cycle.
It was lunchtime as we made our way back out of Stuttgart, to come and park at the university. I took a walk around the campus earlier and from the number of student-aged people around, I'm guessing that term has started, although our little corner is as quiet as it was on our previous visit.
The only other activity of the day was a walk down through the adjacent forest, to a set of three lakes, making a circuit of one of them. A pretty (and quite popular) place:
(*A laundrette having a sale?! I've run a number of rationales for such a thing through my head, and most of them don't stand up to the logic of price vs demand. My best guess is that they're undercutting the next nearest laundrette, which (based on Google's photos and reviews of the two establishments) is the one I would have gone for, if we had been able to park near it.)
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