Feel Sorry for our German Cousins

Only seems like yesterday I was visiting the Nurburgring and Altenahr for a stag do in the E type.

2,000 mile round trip a Mercedes Cosworth, Alfa Quadrifoglio and a few other hot motors, with some circuit laps but mainly drinking beer and eating with the lads. We also watched plenty of racing and had an excellent time in an excellent place.

The E performed perfectly, cruising at very high speeds on the Autobahn for hours on end, queuing at the Channel Tunnel on 33 degree heat for over an hour with the engine on, doing full on laps of the Ring and reaching over 130 mph pretty easily. It was perfect.

We stayed in the region which has now been decimated by floods.

Altenahr has been particularly badly hit. It was a very pretty village where we visited all the bars, went to an excellent beer festival and music festival that went on late into the night (pictures below).

It has now been decimated, I cannot believe it.









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That is so incredibly sad! The before and after pics of the Central Hotel show the devastation clearly.