Four countries-24hrs and Nurburgring

Talk about a big 24 - 26 hours!

We had a really lazy day on our last day in Amsterdam - Friday, and had a reasonably early night that night.

Our mission for the next two days was to get to Nurburg to have a go on the 'Nordschleife' ractrack, and then get to Paris by Sunday night to meet up with Mick.

We left Amsterdam at 10:30 Saturday morning, and arrived after lunch in Cologne where we picked up (the most expensive jalopy ever!) a hirecar. We then drove an hour or so to Nurburg and checked into our hotel.

Had a nice dinner that night, and a fairly early night, as we had to be at the racecar place at 7:30 the next morning.

Got the car, and went to the track, where Theo, the owner of the business proceeded to take me on a hair-raising ride around the ring to show me the ropes ((eg. he took two calls on his mobile, whislt overtaking slower cars, doing 200+ km/h etc.) Fair driver though......

I ended up only doing three laps of 'the ring' - which is still about half an hour of track time. There were a couple of nastier accidents apparently that required the track to be closed whilst being tidied up, so that chewed up most of the 4 hours we had.

Dropped the car back, and drove our crappy Skoda to Luxembourg airport. Got ripped of (again!) by a taxi driver taking us on the 'scenic' route from the airport to the Central staion, where we lockered our bags and spent a nice couple of hours in the old part of town and park.

The train to Paris arrived an hour early, so we got on to make the most of the comfy seats, and then had a 2 hour ride, averaging 180km/h(!!!) to Paris, where Mick was waiting for us.

Had a trip on the underground to Micks apartment, and then went out for a peek across the park to the Eiffel tower, and dinner. A very big 36 hours!

P.S. mis-labelled a couple of videos - TGV is Paris,and vice versa.

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