Australians in Stuttgart

Okay, apparently (according to the statistics) there are about 1,200 Aussies in the Baden-Württemberg area. I am going to assume that most of them live /work in the Stuttgart area. With that said, who the heck are ya and what is your story? Aussie, Aussie, Aussie ... oi, oi, oi (sorry, had to! :-))

Cheers!
Damien

The only Aussies that I know who live in Stuttgart are involved in the Aussie rules team - The Stuttgart Emu's

The website's not ready yet, but there's contact info there. Even if you're not into footy, I'm sure they'd be happy for you to get in touch and have a beer with them after training.

Yeah, one of my new mates (who I met at the Irish bar) told me about the Emu's ... at 198cm, do ya need a ruck? :-) I'll have to check it out. Thanks mate.

Well I guess I'm 0,083 percent of the Aussies in Baden-Wuerttemberg too then.
I've been to a few of the Emu's trainings, haven't made it the last couple of weeks though, will be going this friday hopefully.
The Coach/Organiser is Australian and there's another Aussie there too but he lives somwhere outside of Stuttgart.
I've met one other Aussie woman in Stuttgart, but apart from that, they're a rare breed here.

Hi, I'm from australia, just moved here officially on Monday, though I have been to stuttgart a few times in the past year already as my boyfriend is german and lives here, and now i'm finally moving over. I lived in London for a year and a half but from Sydney originally. Going to be learning German and getting into the german lifestyle now!
cheers,
Winnie

I am another rare breed. An aussie soon to be living in Heilbronn (45 mins from Stuttgart) in September with my German partner. Originally from Melbourne, I am currently living in Hong Kong.

That's it? That's all there is? Just six (or so) of us! Wow, what a small showing. I wonder where the other 1000+ Aussies are *laugh* I have still yet to check out the EMUs ... Anyway, all you Aussies should come out to Biddy's tonight for a sing-fest! :-)

I don't really live in Stuttgart. I work there 3 days a week, so get there early Monday and leave early evening on Wednesday - not enough to call myself a resident...

So that really only leaves 5.

I did some study at Uni in Australia.
( Hey I lived in Bathurst for a while,so that makes me an adopted Aussie.)

Traveled quite a bit as well. Pretty much everywhere North of Sydney. ( and a some south)
Learned to surf in Wollongong. Skydiving in Cairns.
The Whitsundays is the most beautiful place on Earth!

Sorry I got caught up in reminiscing. I miss the life down under.
Goodtimes.

After visiting Sydney couple of weeks ago, I wished I were an Aussie!!! Such a marvellous place, and great people!!! Does that count?

Well, your heart is in the right place! :-) So, sure, we can count you as an honorary Aussie! Ah, but, can you drink like one? ;-)

Struth that's bloody fantastic!

The only thing you did not do is go diving on The Reef ... I'm sure that was just a slip of your reminiscent mind though, right? *grin*

Did you go tandem or go the AFF route? I did AFF in Suffolk, VA.

... I should give ya a medal for living in Bathurst ... not the best place in Australia to be :-) Better than Broken Hill though :-)

Totally agree re: the Passage ... too beautiful. One of those places that you can find yourself and then lose yourself, all in the same day. Magical.

*sigh*

Ah, to be there, on a cat, drifting with a pod of Dolhpins as an escort ...

Well I went snorkeling on the reef, not diving. But that did slip the mind. Must have been a few too many Tooheys. =>

Can i drink with th aussies? I'm true blue mate!
( I miss getting blind on a whole bag/box of goon)

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I did the tandem jump in Cairns.
I wanted to jump high (14,000ft), and that was really the only option they had.
I have just learned about AFF and i'm going to have to give it a shot as well. Do they do any of that near here that you know of? Austria perhaps?

Wow, aren't we a bunch of travellers?
But Crazy_horce, drinking Tooheys won't make you an honorary Australian, same as drinking Becks doesn't make you a German.
And where does Mr. Rothstein call home?

ha ha, lovely have to start working on that

Anyone tried Sydney's Australian Bar?

Being a Lithgow boy I'm quite impressed that someone on here has lived in Bathurst. I"d consider you an adopted aussie if you spent regular evenings at the "Knickerbocker hotel" or better still made a day trip or two to Tarana pub

AGree with you in that drinking Tooheys does not help ... I mean, it is a damn welsh man's beer, after all! I might have given you props had you been drinking vitamin B or Carlton! (again, just a little biased there!) :-)

Home is where you lay your head mate! :-) Nah, originally from Melbourne, Australia. Call that home, most definitely ... although, with eight years in Yankland and more here, I might just have to call home the world! :-)

Nah, haven't yet. I did see where it was though because a bunch of us ate at the place that was upstairs to it ... we wanted to eat Swabian, as opposed to "Aussie" :-) I think that I have issues with the fact that it has Sydney in the name but, what can you do! :-) I mean, what was wrong with just calling it "The Aussie Pub"? Seriously! :-)

Haehaehea, the box of goon ... too funny! Actually, the quality of the goon has increased a lot to the point where you can get some loverly reds that are of decent quality ... used to play footy with the inflated bladders after consuming the contents! The fact that you knew that it was called goon gets you "Aussie points" though :-)

Have not looked into AFF here in Europe. I think that it would be bloody fantastic to recertify. Let me know if you have the funds and are interested and we can check out places!

Trust me people, the skydiving thing is THE closest thing you can get to flying! It is such an awesome feeling. Maybe if we can get enough people together, we can do a group adventure!

Where are your hang-outs? Maybe us Aussies can swing by and school you ... "thumbs on tables, heads on tables ... drink!" :-)

Maybe it's owned by a guy called Sydney ;)

Carlton's not too bad either. I prefer James Boag if you really want to get down to it. But you aussies don't seem to consider tasmania as part of Australia. lol

Plenty of drucken nights at the Knickerbocker and the OX.
Good times!

(never made it to the Tarana pub)

Definitely. I'd be interested. I'll see if i can locate any AFF places nearby. If we can find a place I'm sure we could talk a few people into going as well.

Good Morning Mates, I am also one of those Aussies living in BaWü (close to Heilbronn)

Well are we gonna see you down at training this week?

when do you meet? (need to warm-up beforehand

G'day all. I'm also in BW, albeit pretty far from Stuttgart - I'm down near Basel.

Yep, your bloody right on that one! Taswegians are a class of their own ... not sure what class though! ;-) They're all from the same family ;-)

CALLING ALL AUSSIES
COME AND SUPPORT A FELLOW AUSSIE
THE ONE, THE ONLY ... JIMMY BARNES

Barnesy will be belting it out on October 10th at the Lehenbachhalle in Winterbach (next to the trainstation).

More info and tickets via: www.kuturinitiative-rock.de.

Anyone interested in making it an "Aussies in Stuttgart" group event?

Let me know!

Aussie in Stuttgart no. not too sure, but overall part of the 1200 here!

Little story about Sydney's in Stuttgart: I've had a VB there once or twice. The place is owned and run by Germans. They serve "Emu Burgers". Thing is, they get the "Emu" meat from South Africa. Its flippen Ostrich meat! God knows where the croc burgers come from!

I've been in the Stuttgart area since 2002. German wife and two kids. Still working on learning the bloody language though. Will have to come along to one of these German Practise Stammtishes one day.