Day 30 - Mon 29 Jun: Stuttgart
Estimated km: 0; Actual km: 11; Total km: 1216 17-30deg, fine and warm, some cloud. Brekkie was at the Main Station again; plenty of choice and reasonably priced. While the station itself is still completely operational it is also a massive building site. By looking at some photos they have up and from our limited understanding of German it looks like they are connecting the extensive underground rail network to the Main Train Station, reorienting the lines to through lines instead of dead-ends, building four new railway stations, integrating their station into the Italy to Paris fast train project, and moving all the railway lines underground to create a whole new area of open-space and a new suburb with 250 acres of re-claimed land. The underground and rail networks are currently separate. We've experienced this fully integrated public transport system in other cities and it works very well. Anyway in the meantime the area in and ar...