A quick update to say I’m back in Australia for the next 6 weeks or so sorting out my new VISA. I have been working my ass off lately on Seal.com so I have yet to finish my travel blogs.
Hopefully things will die down in the next week and I’ll be able to catch up. I haven’t even spoken about Barcelona or Hong Kong yet.
_B
Flunkyball
Supplies
It didn’t take long before we were in an International match of Flunky ball, England v Germany…the English had me as their token Aussie, so of course we won that match.
Shake Your Ass was the theme song for the entire weekend
At about 6pm most of us were pretty ruined, some disgraced themselves, others passed out. Neil, Ben H, Richie and I headed into town for a steak on a stone at the Pistenklause. One of the best steaks I have ever had. On our return it was clearly time to switch it up a gear and we moved to Jager and Rugby! …this boys and girls is not the greatest of plans on a race course.
That's what he's talkin bout!
Neil was quite thorough in comparing the cars. Ben wasn't impressed.
By the end of the night we had torn ourselves apart, almost knocked unconscious, run through poison ivy and burnt arms on lanterns. The next day would prove to extremely had to function and rank up there in top 10 hangovers ever but boy it was worth it.
Next the actual festival.
Last week I went to the Rock-Am-Ring rock music festival at the Nurburgring in Germany with some friends. Wednesday afternoon we packed up Neil’s 330d BMW to the absolute brink with our camping and festival gear, and with the ghetto blaster on the back seat between Smith and Richie we headed for Dover.
Ben Hughes was taking Polly, Pete and Jonny in the Shaguar but they weren’t leaving til 2, so they had come catching up to do.
After a short drive and a movie we had arrived in Dover, however we just missed the early ferry and had an hour and a half to wait, luckily that’s just enough time to watch Rambo 4 whilst sitting in the queue. The ferry ride across the channel was breif and as soon as we hit French soil we floored it all the way to Aachen in Germany passing through Belguim and The Netherlands without stopping once.
We caught up with the others at our first stop, the Ibus in Aachen and went out ‘to where all the crazy kids go’ for some pizza and Bitburger. We found the pizza and beer but there was no sign of any crazy kids.
Outside the Ibus in Aachen, Germany
After a decent nights sleep at the Ibus we packed up again and made a B-Line for the Nurburgring so we could find a place and pitch our tents.
The Jag coming up the rear.
The road to the Nurburgring
After driving around the ring and not finding a single place to stop we headed back to the entrance to start again in the opposite direction when a guy came running over saying “Do you guys speak English? Come with me, we have a place for you to camp, we hate the Germans too”.
A little odd and quite frankly worrying being that we are in Germany at a festival surrounded by Germans, but we needed a place so off we went. Turns out it was a great space on the 3Km mark, we immediately erected our tents, had some ciders and instantly made friends with the Germans across the track….the Swiss were not impressed!
Finished erecting tents, time for a cider
…stay tuned, more to come!
Today we leave for Germany for the Rock-Am-Ring musik festival at the Nürburgring. 8 of us are driving over there in 2 cars and then camping on the ring once we get there.
Will do a full report back next week.
_B
On Saturday I ventured out of Woking again and this time I ended up at Thorpe Park with Emily.
It’s a lot like Dreamworld on the Gold Coast but probably more rides, and a absolute load more people. After standing in a huge queue to get in I had to stand in a security queue so I could be searched and then went to stand in the Saw: The Ride queue. That queue was taking ages (1hr 90mins according to the sign??) so we went and stood in the queue to get fast track tickets to queue faster…there was a lot of queuing.
Anyway the Saw fast track was sold out and I just couldn’t wait 2.5hrs so we got an ultimate fast track that allows you quick queuing on 4 different rides. One of them being ‘Tidal’ and considering it was already raining I didn’t like the thought of being soaked completely. After we went on a few of the rides we stopped for some Corona’s and it cleared up a little but this being England the moment we went back out it started raining heavier!
After the ‘Nemesis’ I felt quite sick and thought we should leave but after a tweet from Gavin I thought “we’re here now, we may as well go on the Saw ride”. The sign said 70mins so I thought why not, 1.5hr and some routine maintenance later we got on and I’m really glad we decided to wait because it was definitely the best ride of the day.
I don’t think I will go back to Thorpe Park, as it was mainly full of teenage chavs and mingas so I think I will give Alton Towers a go next.
_B