June 7 Rottenberg to Stuttgart

Sunny again and our credit card company sucks! Sears Mastercard got declined when Carl went to check out of our hotel. He had to use another card because there was no one at Sears MC to take our call due to the time difference. We headed for Gerd's in Stuttgart stopping first at Creglingen to pop into Herrgottskirche which houses a famous carved wooded altar by Tilman Riemenschneider between 1505 and 1510. The next stop at Bad Mergentheim was a quick walk through but it was sufficient to get a flavour of the town. Arrived Stuttgart at 13:00 hours and were greeted by Gerd. We unpacked, chatted a bit and decided we needed some lunch before heading to the Mercedes museum. The museum was quite well laid out and informative. We were there close to 2 hours and from there went downtown to see a bit of the city and to look for Tarok cards. Tarok cards were located but not the type (Piatnik) Carl wants so we thought a stop for refreshments at a patio was in order. After this and since we still were not hungry due to the big lunch we did some grocery shopping. We needed some breakfast food and local beers. Upon our return to Gerd's, we baked some apfel strudel for the next morning and then called it a night.