Stuttgart - September 2014

My husband and I love Germany. We try to go visit his aunt, who lives in the northern part of Germany, at least once every two years but we usually also spend a few days in Stuttgart, with some of our friends, around the last weekend of September. We usually take part in the Cannstatter Volksfest, a traditional beer festival and funfair whose foundation dates back to the beginning of nineteenth century.
To tell the truth, my husband started going to Monaco's beer festival, instead of Stuttart's. He went there alone with his friends for years until we decided to go together also bringing our son of, then, three years old ,with us. We thought Monaco Oktoberfest wast too big of a festival for a child and decided to try Stuttgart's one instead. That is our third year there and we still don't regret our choice.
Stuttgart is a wonderful, cosmopolitan and open minded city. This year we three went there alone and took advantage of that to also visit the city at our leisure.
We first went to Wilhelma, a very big zoo and botanical garden. The buildings and parks of Wilhelma were originally used as living quarters for king Wilhelm the First, from whom it takes its name, so there is a great deal of historical moorish architecture to behold there too.
On our second day we went to the Cannstatter Volksfest. It really is a big fair. We spent almost one hundred euro and had a great time tryng different attractions and eating cotton candy, candy apple, curry wurst and stuff like that.
After going to the festival we went to the Mercedes-Benz Arena to see a football match because my husband is a Vfb Stuttgart fan. We won over Hannover 96, thanks to a goal of Daniel Schwaab, and as it was our first victory this year my husband was so very pleased with himself for having being present.
I would also recommend to visit, as we did on our last day there, Rosensteinpark. I don't know the exact dimensions of it but it really is big! Our first intention was to take a little stroll before living for Italy, maybe allow our son to play for a bit so that he would have been tired once in the car and therefore would have slept during the trip back home. We stayed for 4 hours. The playgrounds are  nothing like  anything  you can find in Italy. They are so very amazing you really, really want to be a child once again! Or at least to have one who still want your help because our five years old boy is unfortunately "big enough to go up there alone" (his words). But, go figure, he really slept once in the car!
Bye!

It sounds like a very good trip.I remember trips like that with my boys when they were young.