I went to Dancecentrum, in Stuttgart, to see Kraftwerk
Last Friday, I found out that Mike P (San Diego's Mike P, not to be confused with Stanford's Mike P) was in Stuttgart, Germany for business for a few weeks. Fortunately for all those involved, Stuttgart is celebrating Cannstatter Wasen right now -- sort of a smaller scale Oktoberfest. As it is but a short 5 hour train ride from Lausanne to Stuttgart (Lausanne to Bern, Bern to Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe to Stuttgart), I woke my butt up early Saturday morning and caught the train to Stuttgart, and met Mike at the station around 1 pm on Saturday. After dumping my bag at his hotel, we wisely left the car and took the subway to the party. The Cannstatter Wasen , or Volksfest, is allegedly more of a fair than a drinking festival (or so claims Wikipedia). Certainly, there are ferris wheels, attractions, carnival food, and games, but the big draw is obviously the drinking tents. If Wikipedia is to be believed, there are seven of these at the fair and each holds around a couple thousand...