Another solo trip into Europe.

[plop71]

Great thread - really enjoying reading it.

Thanks OP

[bobski1]

Brilliant thread, how did you go about planning the trip, did you just book a bunch of random hotels or are you just driving wherever you fancy?

[magooagain]

Very nice reading and a very nice car thank you.
I am over on the west of France and we have some good roads also. Just one thing though this time of year. Watch out for them there tractors.

[CS Garth]

I would however add that whilst we are all enjoying this thread it would be immeasurably improved if there was some kind of gold heist on a German Bank followed by a swift getaway via a carefully planned non-conformist urban route leading to a nerve jangling finish in the Swiss alps.

Or at the very least I'm calling custard on all of these saunas full of naked milf. So pictures please.

[br d]

They do like to stare!:



Let's have some more pics from the klassikstadt:

[milfordkong]

Oof that 997 Classic !!

Great thread and great pics, thanks for sharing, looking forward to further updates.

[br d]

chasingracecars said:

Used a clone tool in Photoshop to trim part of the block away and replace with some grass and fill the bumper edge back in.

My pleasure doing this. Nice car and photo there is always something that needs to go.

Thank you, looks good.

Leins said:

Great selection of pics there Brad, although I always find it upsetting to see cars being so underutilised. That Scalextric track should be going 24/7

Thanks. The track looked like it hadn't been used for a while, shame.

LeoZwalf said:

Just another messsage from someone enjoying your thread I lived in Frankfurt for 5 years and never heard of that place, st!

It was a pretty flashy building, looked like an old warehouse had been converted so it may not have been there long, the McLaren dealership would be pretty new.

TonyTony said:

Good read.

Maybe you should get a camera and Vlog a bit of your traveling?

I've done a video, it's uploading now. Fair warning, it's bloody awful!

plop71 said:

Great thread - really enjoying reading it.

Thanks OP

Thank you.

bobski1 said:

Brilliant thread, how did you go about planning the trip, did you just book a bunch of random hotels or are you just driving wherever you fancy?

The first few times I did this I would just wing it. Head out into France and just stay wherever I ended up. While it was great from the adventure angle it started to become a pain with regards to the car. I have to have a hotel with some sort of on site or secure parking, I can't just leave it three streets away in a strange place.
So I would arrive somewhere after a lot of hours driving and just not be able to get a decent hotel, so I'd have to set off again.

This got too much after a while so now I do meticulous planning, and it works, I get very good hotels and a nice route and because I'm booking in advance I get good rates.

I used to turn up somewhere, there'd be one hotel with secure parking and they'd say "We have one room available, it's the top floor suite sir, that'll be 1100 euros".

I stayed in some fantastic rooms but got robbed blind!

[br d]

magooagain said:

Very nice reading and a very nice car thank you.
I am over on the west of France and we have some good roads also. Just one thing though this time of year. Watch out for them there tractors.

Yep! Been there!

CS Garth said:

I would however add that whilst we are all enjoying this thread it would be immeasurably improved if there was some kind of gold heist on a German Bank followed by a swift getaway via a carefully planned non-conformist urban route leading to a nerve jangling finish in the Swiss alps.

Or at the very least I'm calling custard on all of these saunas full of naked milf. So pictures please.

Whatever else I do on this trip I'm certainly not putting custard on naked milfs!

[br d]

I thought fish were supposed to have a 10 second memory? I came out into the garden of this hotel this morning and there was nobody out here. There is a big pond surrounded by all the tables, it's very pretty.

I pulled a chair out next to the pond and all the fish came charging over and stuck there heads out waiting for food!



My cup of tea came with a biscuit so I crumbled it up and dropped it in, they all went completely batst mental! It was like piranhas!

The tea comes with an egg timer so you can check how long you leave your tea leaves in:



Drove along the Mosel to Trier this morning and spent a couple of hours cleaning the car inside and out:



These self clean places are great but the buggers all use their own tokens that won't go in any other machines so you end up with loads of this crap:



German's a proper jaw cracker, this is in the little town I'm staying at, it means "Butchers":



And this is the beer garden I was in last night:



All the old girls in there were pissed, it was a great laugh watching them all, might go back in there later.
(Christ, what happened to the coke and hookers days!)

[br d]

Right [drumroll] I've done a video!
Please don't get your hopes up!

I was driving a different route back to my hotel earlier and noticed this lot coming up on the sat-nav:



So I pulled over just before it and faffed around with my phone.
Now there is nowhere in this car (without drilling holes) to mount a phone holder so I just have a spiderpodium wedged in the fan hole thing so I can play music and have Google sat nav. This means this video is not only the wrong way round (horror!) but most of it just shows the dash board.
What your getting is a little off-centered bit of film reminiscent of those postage stamp sized things Microsoft were so excited about back in Windows 95.

Caveats.
I had no idea of the bends obviously. It also became quickly apparent that with the width of this car on such a narrow road passing anything would be tricky. The bends were completely blind hence why I'm getting on the brakes way too early incase anything is coming the other way.

All the crashing about is all the loose st in the car rolling around!

I'm not sure if the vid picked it up but I kept getting too close to the edges and I could hear all the dirt getting thrown up under the car!

And if only I could have shown the rear view mirror, that airbrake thing bouncing up and down is a joy to watch!

This will probably be put straight into the "Bad driving caught on dashcam" thread

https://youtu.be/sk1UMIZi8Tc

[drivin_me_nuts]

As long as the airbrake bounces up and down in sync with your now pert chest, it's fine. I do love your car. I thought red was ace, the white one a bit bonkers, but this is just the doggies danglies.

[magooagain]

That vid is ok mate. Looks like a nice time is being had. Do you still have to deal with work while you are away?

Last year I did a track day local to me and a French guy had one like yours same colour also.

I was go smacked when he came over to me and was very enthusiastic about my old Fiat coupe track tool. Turns out he owned one at some point.

Keep posting please ,very enjoyable .

[Resto157]

Great read, keep it coming

[chalda]

Vertical video syndrome? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9zSfinwFA

[Vroom101]

Would love to see that filmed with a 'proper' camera. Looks like a great road. Could you possibly buy a GoPro on Amazon and have it delivered to your hotel?

https://www.amazon.de/GoPro-HERO4-Adventure-Action...

How long have you got left of your trip?

[dmitry]

This video is brilliant in its awfulness. Great car, great road, fantastic feeling driving there, but it's a tad hard to capture it on a camera, isn't it?

I must say thank you for this and the other threads you've made during the previous travels. Not only it's a grest read, but also I enjoy going for lone trips myself and always thought of it as of something weird, seeing you and others also appreciating such road trips is somewhat reassuring

D.

[br d]

They didn't deserve it.
They'll go out next game.
Portugal that is.

Here's Lotar and deiter:

Surprised by their hatred of Merkel, seems like 50% here reject the EU.

Can't let this descend into politics.

[CS Garth]

Looks like Mike Ashley has lost a few pounds and Jimmy hill is ripped off his tits

[br d]

More pics:



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Nope, my bottle went.

Might as well face it you're addicted to love.

https://youtu.be/XcATvu5f9vE

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[br d]