Because husband doesn't really want to take more than one big foreign vacation a year -- and because he went to Europe several times before we met (lucky) -- I went on a trip with my lovely friend Emily. The above picture is the two of us in front of the puppets of Lyon (for which the city is noted).
Initially, we were trying to decide between France and Italy. We picked Lyon, France because of the gastronomy and because I have a little bit of French (and zero Italian), which makes it easier to get around. We had thought of taking a train to Florence and spending a few days there, but for whatever reason, train tickets were crazy expensive to Italy but relatively cheap to Germany -- so we headed north to Stuttgart instead. Neither of us has a lick of German, but most people in Germany speak some English, so we didn't have any difficulties. My small French did come in handy in Lyon, where knowledge of English is not nearly as prevalent.
Both cities were a lot of fun. People were amazingly friendly to us throughout the trip, and the food and drink in both locales were absolutely heaven.
The full album of pictures from Lyon is here.
And the full album of pictures from Stuttgart is here.
Selected pictures of food and drink-related sites below the cut!
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