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Lubeck, Germany
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006

Speedin'

David Murray
2007-03-04 10:17:58

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Previously written down in another story

Note to self, get more sleep
Reply to self, go fuck yourself, the Ashes are on.
Note to self, good reply

And so it goes. Once again, no sleep (I keep staying up to watch the cricket !!!) and another very early morning drive to Stanstead as we are going to be flying to Germany. We had the usual Ryanair shit fight to get a seat, but we got one easily enough. I slept the majority of the trip, and once down, we went out to the Hertz desk to get our car. I gave my name and they announced that I had been upgraded to a BMV, from the Polo I had booked. We went outside and there it was. A little graphite BMV. We jumped in, there was no key, there was a slot instead. I pushed it in and couldn't get the car to start. I pushed the start button and it still didn't do anything. I put my foot on the clutch, and the shitter roared into life. Onto the autobahn we went. I put my foot down and asked Lucy how fast were we going.

She said around 120 K's, I asked for the camera and took a shot. When I gave it back, she wasn't very impressed. The camera was showing 200 Kph !!! I backed off a little and not long after we arrived at our first stop

Luneburg

Parked up and into town we went. It is over 1000 years old and the place use to be the centre for salt production until 1980. Once stopped, the town became a tourist Mecca because all of the buildings lean more than 2 metres over. Rather amusing to look at. There is a story that the guy who designed St Johanniskirche was pissed off with the leaning steeple that he climbed it and jumped, bounced off the sides and landed in a haycart. He then went and got pissed, and died when he hit his head the same night. Sounds like a load of shit, but the church was nice. All the lanes were buzzing with Christmas markets, so we did the right thing, and dived into them. Hit the Gluwein and it went down a treat. ...