A Correction July 2, 2008
Posted by afrojade in Eurotrip, Random thoughts.Tags: whos-afraid-of-heights
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I stand corrected. Stuttgart is not the best city in the world. This is not to say that it isn’t brilliant. I would still love to stay there. It feels right, which is important in a place where one stays. It’s just that a lot of the things that I find really cool — are turning out to be quite commonplace here. Neat gardens and interesting city centres and beautiful landscapes seem to be everywhere in Germany! Which hurts a bit … there are so many small things in which Mumbai could be so much nicer. I hate to sound like a typical NRI — always cribbing about India, and how bad it is, and how the West is much better and all that. My only defence is that I sincerely do like Mumbai!
PS: This post has been been lying unpublished ever since I went to Munich and Vienna. However it was inspired by Munich, and definitely not by Vienna. Vienna is a dead city on a Sunday morning. I don’t care if Catherine considers me odd to have expected life in a European capital on a Sunday morning. I guess I am just spoilt by living in Mumbai and India 
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A couple of pics to end the post …
Marienplatz — A typical Bavarian parade. Yet, I don’t know if they were heading off to war or to the nearest pub. They were marching with both swords and beer mugs
The Englisher Garten — A pretty amazing African music troupe kept me entertained.
The Austrian Parliament — Yup, that’s a house on top of the Parliament building.
Vienna fanzone — The stewards sure know how to have fun!
it had to happen
i see the city so much differently now!
anyway, u were at vienna on the wrong sunday
Oh I think I will give Vienna another chance to impress me
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Perhaps it was the horrible heat that kept most people off the streets on that Sunday. It was really, really hot! The icecream we bought would melt before we could eat it. Totally un-Europelike!