Die Alpen 2019 (Was Le Alps)

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

Top of the Stelvio pass 😎

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

[neptune]

Very envious ! Keen to hear how busy it is and if it's a worthwhile visit.

[Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup)]

Seeing you all in your shorts, reminds me.

 

I think I am having chicken tonight.

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

2 hours ago, neptune said:

Very envious ! Keen to hear how busy it is and if it's a worthwhile visit.

It’s really Terrible 😜 hairpin after hairpin 😜 Busy but excellent fun 👍 The best way to empty a tank 💪 we’ve saved 169kg of CO2 by taking the train 😁

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

2 hours ago, Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO said:

Seeing you all in your shorts, reminds me.

 

I think I am having chicken tonight.

If you get served chicken legs like mine, I’d take them back to Aldi and get into M&S for some with more meat on 😜

[Greenstreak-Andy D]

@IanK (Bagpuss) Has been disgraced!

 

Run him over, never again....

 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

5 hours ago, Greenstreak-Andy D said:

@IanK (Bagpuss) Has been disgraced!

 

I was just ‘working something out’ 😎

5 hours ago, Greenstreak-Andy D said:

Run him over, never again....

 

This cat has nine lives 👍

[Greenstreak-Andy D]

Dave found a leaky cooling pipe...

 

sorted... (was a hose clip loose allowing pipe to slide partially off heater matrix feed)

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

Sadly we left Austria on Sunday to start our drive home. 

 

 

our route included driving the Fern Pass however traffic was heavy and it was fairly tame compared to the great ones we’d driven earlier this week.

 

Approximately 30 mins on our route on a national speed limit single carriage way, we were buzzed by a convoy of Porsche 918’s and Carrera GT’s. Regrettably we’ve no pics and the one car of us we’ve battery left in the Go Pro wasn’t filming 😂

 

We did pass them again a while later as they were refuelling and they (or a similar convoy) passed us shortly after when we were ‘watering the plants’.

 

Once across the border ( no ones stopped us or looked at our passports since docking in Zeebrugge 😱) we took the Autobahn to reach our next destination, the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart.

 

we did pass several kits on the Autobahn, a couple on trailers and one joined our convoy for a while.

 

 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

We arrived at the Porsche Museum just after 12 and parked in a spotless underground carpark (only EUR 4). Admission was a bargain EUR 8 each. The museum is only ten years old and clearly a lot of money spent on it.

 

I persuaded the lady on the information desk to allow us to park our cars for a brief photo shoot on the foyer outside the entrance door, however her miserable boss said ‘Nein’ as they aren’t Porsches 😱

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

A few more pics

 

 

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

It was only 35 Degrees C when we left the museum for the short trip to our next hotel for the night. 

 

 

Bagpuss approved the Hotel

selected by @Greenstreak-Andy D

 

As always on arrival at a hotel after a hot days driving, a few jars of the local cooling down juice are consumed whilst we celebrate and discuss the great moments of the day. 

 

Showered and changed into our evening attire, we had another great meal washed down with more cooling down fluid. We then debate  the following days departure time, given we’ve got another long day in the saddle to get to the ring.

 

@Greenstreak-Andy D Says we don’t need to leave too early as it’s forecasted to be only 22 degrees at 7:00 😱

 

I hope he’s right 👍

 

We had a stroll at dusk after dinner and found a great palace a short walk away :  

 

www.schloss-ludwigsburg.de

 

 

 

I’ve been melting all night and we’ve got the window open and a desk fan mounted on a chair between our beds 😱

[Geoffrey Carter (Buttercup)]

Shame your trip is coming to an end.

 

I have enjoyed all the pictures.

[Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO]

Quick drive in , pic and run off 😱