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Friday, 2 October 2009

We are here at last....


After breakfast were headed to the Ring, the sat nav was generally unhappy with the destination however and so refused to pinpoint the location for us, undeterred we resorted to the map book.

Not so good as the whole of Germany is only a page wide so it's level of detail was, shall we say insufficient, a bit like looking for Silverstone using a world atlas.  However in time we sighted a Renault Five Gordini so we opted to follow it as surely it must be heading our way.

The Renuault 5 Gordini is quite quick, so we didn't follow it for long, our camping gear, box of dry ice and crates of beer were taking their tole on speed / handling.  Its a shame we are heading for a race track really.....

To cut a long story short we had to ask for directions to find the entrance, we drove under and round the ring for a while, we could see it, hear it we even tried following some exotica but we were always left behind.  Looking good for the actual Nurburgring then.


The photo at the top is us,  lost within a quarter mile of the ring, the problem is this; the ring is almost 14 miles long, so we did not know which side of the ring we were on in relation to the entrance,  so it was a reasonable trek to keep going round the outside to find our way in, plus we wanted to be on our way to the next stop (Wurzburg) by mid day.  The photo was taken at around 11 am so we are running late allready.

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