Monday, September 01, 2003
Taking off, pt. II
From Gomadingen (Southern Germany) to Berlin (Capital City).
I took off in Gomadingen at 12:30 pm. My dad wanted to take a picture of me and my luggage. So I figured it is better to shoot back.
This is what I took with me. The piece of crap in perfect shape (the shiny green this on the right of the picture) is a car. It's a FIAT UNO, 51kW, with a weight of 810 kg, 165km/h max. speed, for those who care -- I don't.
It took about 40 minutes until I left the country road. As soon as you hit the Autobahn you are suppresed by the power of the bigger cars. Men just seem to transform into race car drivers. They even wear the Michael Schumacher's cap (I've seen at least 5 of those!).
Short and heavy rain is not supposed to be a problem for good drivers. At least the real Schumacher can handle that. The fake ones sometimes can't. If this happens, the normal driver's that have been humiliated earlier by the race car drivers line up for the parade of pride singing "We are the champions!" The parade took about 2 hours. For our patience we were rewarded by a wonderful double rainbow.
I was supposed to drive into Berlin from the West. Rebekka gave me a very detailed description how to get there from the Autobahn. Somehow I ended up driving into the city from the South-East. Luckily I had a map of the town with me -- it was published in 1992. I decided to make a little tourist tour through the city titled "Berlin at night with a little rain". Marvellous!
The bad part about it was that I got there 2.75 hours late (2 hours for the lovely parade, 45 minutes for sight seeing).
I took off in Gomadingen at 12:30 pm. My dad wanted to take a picture of me and my luggage. So I figured it is better to shoot back. This is what I took with me. The piece of crap in perfect shape (the shiny green this on the right of the picture) is a car. It's a FIAT UNO, 51kW, with a weight of 810 kg, 165km/h max. speed, for those who care -- I don't.
It took about 40 minutes until I left the country road. As soon as you hit the Autobahn you are suppresed by the power of the bigger cars. Men just seem to transform into race car drivers. They even wear the Michael Schumacher's cap (I've seen at least 5 of those!).
Short and heavy rain is not supposed to be a problem for good drivers. At least the real Schumacher can handle that. The fake ones sometimes can't. If this happens, the normal driver's that have been humiliated earlier by the race car drivers line up for the parade of pride singing "We are the champions!" The parade took about 2 hours. For our patience we were rewarded by a wonderful double rainbow.I was supposed to drive into Berlin from the West. Rebekka gave me a very detailed description how to get there from the Autobahn. Somehow I ended up driving into the city from the South-East. Luckily I had a map of the town with me -- it was published in 1992. I decided to make a little tourist tour through the city titled "Berlin at night with a little rain". Marvellous!The bad part about it was that I got there 2.75 hours late (2 hours for the lovely parade, 45 minutes for sight seeing).
