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Feb 23, 2009 | 9:38 am
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If you're a car buff, the Mercedes Benz museum in Stuttgart is worth a visit if you're passing through. Heidelberg is also pretty accessible too and has a really great gothic feel, there's a really cool castle there and a great nightlife. You can take the S-bahn between any of the cities from Dusseldorf to Frankfurt, I find myself lumping them together since they're really part of one huge (albeit segmented) metropolitan area.
Feb 23, 2009 | 9:38 am
#32
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Berto, The weather is a big factor for doing things in Garmisch, have been there in March and there was so much snow. The Gorge is something you have to do when the weather is decent. The lifts to the Zugspitze don't run if weather is bad if I recall. You will like Stuttgart and Munich. Smart Car has their factory nearby Frankfort also.
On a side note, I don't think that OP is planning on commuting to/from Kentucky. 'Frankfort' is in America; 'Frankfurt' is in Germany.
Feb 23, 2009 | 7:49 pm
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If you purchase S-Bahn ticket along with your ICE ticket, all you need to do is show your online ticket to an agent if you run into one in S-Bahn (I did in Stuttgart). One thing with S-Bahn is they don't run as frequent on weekend than weekday, you might want to check and print out the online timetable at www.vvs.de.
I am not sure your schedule going to look like that day, but you can take and early train from Munich to Stuttgart and leave late afternoon (TGV Munich to Stuttgart, ICE Stuttgart-Frankfurt for 49 Euro 1st class) 6-7 hrs should be able to cover both museums. As for carry backpack to the museum, you should be fine, I carry mine along with Tripod to both museums. As a matter of fact, I saw a guy had a tripod with dolley in Mercedes Museum.
I am not sure your schedule going to look like that day, but you can take and early train from Munich to Stuttgart and leave late afternoon (TGV Munich to Stuttgart, ICE Stuttgart-Frankfurt for 49 Euro 1st class) 6-7 hrs should be able to cover both museums. As for carry backpack to the museum, you should be fine, I carry mine along with Tripod to both museums. As a matter of fact, I saw a guy had a tripod with dolley in Mercedes Museum.
Feb 24, 2009 | 2:58 am
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3 hours is nothing, better forget about the Porsche Museum.
Your timetable for S - Bahn: http://www2.vvs.de/vvs/AHF/vvs05_00005fa3.pdf
Departure: Normally every 15 min, but sometimes only every 30 min. 10 min to go with the S - Bahn. So you need in best case 15 min after starting to arrive the museum, in worst case 45 min. You have to add the time to arrive the S - Bahn and the time for the Luggage. Then you will have only roundabout 45 min for the museum in the worst case...
Feb 24, 2009 | 5:46 am
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Berto, have a great trip and will look forward to your trip report. I have never been to Frankfurt, like the hotdog. Sorry for the spelling, have only typed in the airport code. We have always flown in and out of Munich. We want to do more train travel next trip so look forward to hearing about that.
Feb 24, 2009 | 7:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Forstbetrieb
Good Luck to you...
3 hours is nothing, better forget about the Porsche Museum.
Your timetable for S - Bahn: http://www2.vvs.de/vvs/AHF/vvs05_00005fa3.pdf
Departure: Normally every 15 min, but sometimes only every 30 min. 10 min to go with the S - Bahn. So you need in best case 15 min after starting to arrive the museum, in worst case 45 min. You have to add the time to arrive the S - Bahn and the time for the Luggage. Then you will have only roundabout 45 min for the museum in the worst case...
3 hours is nothing, better forget about the Porsche Museum.
Your timetable for S - Bahn: http://www2.vvs.de/vvs/AHF/vvs05_00005fa3.pdf
Departure: Normally every 15 min, but sometimes only every 30 min. 10 min to go with the S - Bahn. So you need in best case 15 min after starting to arrive the museum, in worst case 45 min. You have to add the time to arrive the S - Bahn and the time for the Luggage. Then you will have only roundabout 45 min for the museum in the worst case...
Originally Posted by flpab
Berto, have a great trip and will look forward to your trip report. I have never been to Frankfurt, like the hotdog. Sorry for the spelling, have only typed in the airport code. We have always flown in and out of Munich. We want to do more train travel next trip so look forward to hearing about that.
Trip reports....
Last year was bad for me, in terms of posting one here on FT as I never actually got around to editing it. I had blogged it as I was on the go, but it was often written at the end of a long day and contained run-ons, repetition, and just bad grammar (that might have something to do with being an engineering major
) However, this year I have resolved to actually edit it and make sure it gets on the trip reports forum quickly. Watch out for it next month!