Karlsruhe

More train travel! Yesterday we were in Karlsruhe, about an hour away from Stuttgart. This is the town that Tanja and her family lived in just before they migrated to Australia in 1983. It's roughly the same size as Canberra (300,000 inhabitants) and also shares a similar urban design. Like the symmetry of Canberra looking from the War Memorial down to Parliament House, the streets in Karlsruhe all fan out from the castle like spokes on a wheel. A link to a photo here. This means that from the inner city, you can look down almost any street and see the castle. In the evening we sat on the grass to watch the Light Fest - a light show broadcast onto the front of the castle (similar to Vivid in Sydney).