Hello adventure: Dark Night in Stuttgart

First, I wanna start off by introducing the "Confessions" part of my blog.

Here you will find interesting travel confessions, not only from myself but also from other fellow travelers. I'd say tips for trips is a classic, but we can rarely hear a good travel story. You know the situations that make up the whole trip, like a stupid situation on a random street or a getting lost kinda sucks or some weird conversation or just about anything that classifies as an interesting story. So if you are interesting in reading this type of blog posts, stay tuned and don't get too obsessed with our "Travel Confessions". And of course, if you feel that you can or would like to contribute, you can tell me your travel story at traveloholicgirl@gmail.com.

Ok, without any further ado, let's start with the first "Confession"!

Dark Night in Stuttgart

While living in Germany in 2015, i used to travel a lot in the area. So this one time, me and my friend Lucie decided to go and have a nice tour which included: Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Worms and couple more smaller lovely German cities. Stuttgart, as our first destination left as quite an impression, but still we were unaware of what we would face that same night. Note: This is not a horror story. Back to where we're having a lovely day, just randomly walking through a very amazing German city it's a good time to mention that we were Couch Surfing. We left our stuff at this Couch Surfer Claus, that offered his place for us to stay in and he suggested to show us a bit around his home town. Having a tour and checking out some great places and being introduced with a lot of fun facts (I'll share one: The German accent in Stuttgart is considered as one of the bad ones. Hmm? What do you think?), we ended up in one park in which you can face the prototype of how Germans live (which is amazing), talking about being barefoot, having a grill, sunbathe in the middle of the city, just chilling and other lovely stuff. Me, Lucie and Claus had a beer and me and Lucie realized that Claus was very, very antisocial, so our confusion grew stronger in why was Claus willing to let us crash at his place, and he obviously wasn't very fond of guests. But anyway, he left and we continued strolling around the city to end up in a Church Festival (Kirchen Fest), which is also a bit strange (not that i'm a nonbeliever, but thousands of people just standing there listening and singing along to church music and lighting candles is just a bit too much for my taste. Ok, maybe the candles were sweet, having such a beautiful sight of all that lights from the side). After that we had an amazing Italian dinner and we were too tired to go on and it was something before midnight already, so in a hurry to catch the last bus. So, at the end we managed to get to the right station, which was more towards the suburbs of Stuttgart. Here is where it all begins. We start going around the dark hilly streets looking for Claus's place and we realize after half an hour just walking somewhere that we are completely lost. Much of the darkness did it's part as we got quite scared, but not as much as when a small red car started to follow us around. As first our logical assumption was that it's all in our heads but after 10 minutes of slow driving close by, we weren't so sure anymore. At the moment we were passing by a construction side and started walking faster, almost running with that red car behind us. We couldn't see who's driving the car because of the car lights and not so much light on the street. Forgot to mention that we are calling Claus 100 times, but no answer. Luckily or not we saw a completely dark park on the right side, so our first tough: Let's get in it. Stupid, right? Just kidding, we went into it because it looked familiar, so we hoped we will find Claus's place and run away from the red car devil. So climbing up through the completely dark (not even one light) and hilly park, we got to an even darker street. But honestly, it was so dark, we couldn't see our fingers in front of us. So we were walking holding hands and screaming occasionally, and just walking and walking for 5 minutes in complete darkness and than we start seeing some lights. We were both so happy, and finally found something that looked like Claus's street. At the end of the street, there was Claus's house. We stood there in front of it, shortly doubting whether to go in. So when we finally did, Claus opened the door and said he fell asleep and did't hear his phone. The night passed by fine and early in the morning we were on our way. Do you remember the red car? Well the funny thing is that, on our way out we saw that red car parked in the street. Walked out of there and we never looked back.

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