Fishmarkt & Tübingen

Yesterday Shanna & I had made plans to head down to Tübingen, a college town 45 minutes outside of Stuttgart, with some friends we've made since coming here, Jenny & Chris. At 10am, right as we're getting ready to walk down to the train station, we get a call from Chris saying that Jenny woke up that morning not feeling well, and they were going to head to the clinic. We had planned on going to the Fischmarkt while it was in town (July 8th - 18th), so we figured now would be a good time to go while we waited to hear back from them.

Yes, as you can see, Murphy had a field day trying to get as many pieces of dropped food as possible.  The Fischmarkt was great...seafood isn't easy to find around here, and the selection they had was huge.  They also brought some beer from Hamburg.  It wasn't anything spectacular, but it wasn't bad.

They also had vendors set up in giant boats (or Boots as the Germans say).

After lunch Jenny calls us and says she's feeling much better and still wants to head to Tübingen.  We finish up at the Markt, take the dogs home, then head out.  Jenny & Chris get on our train when we get closer to their house in Böblingen, and 20 minutes later we reach the Tübingen Hauptbahnhof.  

It's a neat little town...it has a good mix of young students and tourists, plus the town was never bombed in WWII, so all the old buildings are original, and not re-made.  In comparison, Stuttgart was leveled during the war, so 60 percent of the city is less then 70 years old.  We first stopped by the Tourist Info center to see what there was to do around town.  I saw this in the window and had to take a picture.

After that, we headed into the older part of town.

At this point it had started to get cloudy and cool, so we walked around looking at the shops, and eventually stopped a coffee shop to sit & relax.  A brief shower came through, and when it subsided, we started walking around again.  It's definitely a city I'd like to come back to again, it was nice walking around the old parts of town.  Dinner time rolled around, and we headed to a brewery / pub we'd seen on the way in to town.  They had GREAT food, and good beer.  That's where we spent most the night, just talking and enjoying some beers.

Finally the night wound down, and we all headed back to the train station.  All in all it was another exciting day in Germany. :)