Short European trip

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DavidB

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Day 1 - England to Nürburgring, Germany - 390 miles

My first proper trip abroad in the M - we travelled via the tunnel from the UK to the Nürburgring, an easy journey with little traffic on the roads. We stayed overnight at the 'Hotel am Tiergarten' owned by Sabine Schmitz' family which was nice and we met Sabine's mother :) I last visited the 'ring in 2007 and a lot has changed since then - the area is now much more commercialised although, with most of the new complex shut, there was hardly a soul to be seen :tumbleweed:

We knew the 'ring itself was shut now until March so we'll have to go back at some point. Instead we found some great driving roads in the area with lots of hairpin bends :thumbsup:

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Cheers for pics whats the hotel like good parking do you have a link ?

That looks like a ghost town theres something about this on Pistonheads fears the ring may close.

Should be going over to Spa late Sept may drive on into Germany then have a blast on the Autobahns before they all become restricted.
 
Here's the link - http://www.am-tiergarten.de/en/home/ I parked under the porch with one other car, not sure how parking would be when it's busy. They seemed to own several buildings near the hotel so I'm guessing it would be fine, worth asking them though :)

Day 2 - Nürburgring, Germany to Luzern, Switzerland - 335 miles

On day 2 we travelled from Germany to Switzerland - on the way we had some fun on the derestricted autobahn as we were blessed with another day of beautiful sunshine :) After about 5 hours we arrived at our destination - the city of Luzern in Switzerland. Neither of us had visited here before and we were both impressed by it's beauty, more Z4 photos tomorrow :thumbsup:

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Abarth 500

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The amazing Kapellbrücke

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DavidB, great post, thanks for those. Look forward to the rest and ideas for another trip.

I stayed in Lucern on my way to Italy, lovely place.
 
Day 3 - Luzern to Andermatt, halfway to Interlaken & back, Switzerland - approx 100 miles

Day 3 we decided to head to the mountains and set off for the St Gotthard Pass which I'd only done before in the summer, we expected it would be closed but in the spirit of adventure we decided to give it a go. Almost as soon as we departed Luzern it began to snow, not a good sign.

Although the Gotthard Pass was closed we headed up the mountain road towards Andermatt.
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As we stopped for this photo the engine started back firing followed by an engine emissions light :o We decided to head back down and find a BMW dealership...
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While we waited we drooled over this beautiful black M3 - fully loaded with carbon fibre roof 8)
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In the dealership they didn't speak much English but basically they reset the light and advised us to get it checked in the UK. We decided to take a trip to Interlaken instead of heading back to Andermatt as we thought it would be more of a main road, the snow was getting worse.

Turned out the route to Interlaken involved more mountain roads, this was getting bad :(
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Minutes later the snow was laying on the road, even the slightest touch of throttle caused the back end to twitch and DSC to kick in (the summer performance tyres didn't help)
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Looking at the Sat-nav we were heading up more mountainous roads, it was time to retreat and get to a lower altitude. It felt like I was driving in the Arctic again as I was in December. As soon as we got back down we headed back to Luzern for the rest of the day...
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original guvnor said:
DavidB said:
While we waited we drooled over this beautiful black M3 - fully loaded with carbon fibre roof 8)
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I didn't realise Marilyn Manson was a car salesman :o
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:lol: :lol: Hell yes, if he was I'd never be out of that showroom!

That M3 is hot too. Great photos David, thanks for sharing.
 
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