Germany Part 2

The drive from Prague to Stuttgart is about 485kms, which google says will take you 5.5 hours (lots of construction). We left Prague during morning rush hour, so getting out of the city (the Marriott is on a cobble stone street adjacent to Old Town) took us about 45 mins. Even with that, we still made it to Stuttgart in ~5:15:00. Oh yeah… we also stopped about an hour for lunch 😊.

Top speed for the day was about 135mph. For most of the driving we were down around 100-120mph, but that was for hours at a time except through construction areas. One interesting observation from the driver – Laura and Alex are much more relaxed at these higher speeds. At the start of the trip, they would get a little anxious at about 110mph and higher. Now, they don’t seem to perk up until around 130mph.

As expected, the main goal of visiting Stuttgart was to visit the Porsche Museum. The museum is awesome. My one complaint was that they were honoring the 50 years of Turbos, and to do that, they had to move the GT3 collection out to move more turbos in. As a GT3 owner… I was a little saddened by this… Until you walk through the parking garage located under the museum! Tons of amazing Porsches including many that are not allowed in the US. The parking garage was almost as much fun as the museum!

For my fellow Porschephiles:

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Favorite streetcar: 1998 GT1

Favorite racecar: 1971 917

Favorite 911: 1973 Carrera RS (Duh)

And here’s a little secret we accidently discovered… if you arrived at the museum in a Porsche and talk with the very nice Porsche security team… they will permit you drive onto the outdoor museum display in front of the museum to take pictures! We were the only ones who did this for the time we were there, but the security people seemed to infer anyone (who arrived in a Porsche) could do this if they obtained permission first.

After a couple hours of walking the entire museum frontwards and again backwards, it was time to call it a day and head for our hotel in downtown Stuttgart. As we were only here for a single night, we didn’t bother with any of the tourist stuff. Instead, we just wanted to eat a good meal and get a good night’s sleep. The next day we’d be driving a marathon trip to our home in Amsterdam.