fun fun fun on the autobahn
Thousands of trucks doing 100ks on left lane majority of cars doing 130 the car speed limit in the middle lane and a selection of fancy German cars doing what ever on right some must be touching 180 or more.
The French motorway was Peugeots and Renaults and expensive tolls we spent about 20 euro $30 au getting from Paris to the border but the German ones have been free so far.
You don’t get to see much as they bypass townships and there’s a lot of concentration needed but when there’s big distances to travel like today they are the best way.
The day started about 8 when we left Metz got petrol about 1.30 euro a litre which must be touching 2 dollars then to the supermarket next door for breakfast. It must have been twice if not three times bigger than Coles or Safeway, the bakery had the best rolls and we got some tasty cheese to go with them.
First stop was the technic museum in Speyer it was about a two hour drive into Germany
This place was amazing but by the end of the day insignificant compared to our next stop. The Speyer museum had a real 747 up a stick which you could climb and explore. They had dozens of planes helicopters, submarines, trains and cars. Got our first scnitchel and real German beer then onto Sinshiem which was 38 k away.
Sinshiem also had a techno museum and their spectacular centerpiece was a real Concorde and the Russian Concorde copy the TU144. Both planes were mounted on the roof of the museum hall and had stairs so you could explore them. The museum had two huge halls filled with hundreds of classic cars, military equipment, trains, bikes and planes.
It was then back on the autobahn to Stuttgart tonight’s stop. The drive took about an hour the cars sat nav is the best thing it is taking us from door to door all we need to do is follow the instructions which the device talks to us it would have saved hours of driving and frustration already.
We got to our hotel and headed straight down to the Stuttgart beer festival – “Volksfest’ which was only a few stations away -what an amazing place Its hard to believe that Ocktober fest is going to be bigger.
The place was set on about 150 acres and there was rides amusements (with plenty of carneys) and huge beer halls full of happy Germans singing Zikki Zakki ….
The beer was cheap at and very tasty and food was tasty too had some nice sausages with potato salad…yum. We took it pretty easy as we had a big week ahead of us.. but did sample quite a few nice beers… And some of the beer wenches were pretty good.
The big beer tents would have had 3 to 4 thousand people in each of them chanting and singing along to the big party disco anthems. There’s no drunks and no trouble- everyone is having far to much fun to make a dickhead out of them self.
