Day 3 – Saturday
We woke up bright eyed and bushy tailed on Saturday morning ready to hit the road to the ‘Ring. Well, most of us anyway!
As per my previous post, we were relying on some cheap parking in Amsterdam. We were not disappointed! Usual parking price for 24 hours is 35 euros… EACH! But because we’d splashed out the 5.70 euros on tram tickets, we were able to get this reduced to 1 euro! Result!
Passed some more touristy things on the way back from the Hostel
We’d originally planned to try and visit Spa for the afternoon, but Mick had encountered a slight issue with his exhaust. We’d noticed through the tunnels that it was getting louder and louder and sounding even more shit that it did to begin with
. So we pulled over to have a look and found the mother of all holes in his backbox. It looked like Katy Price needing a shave! So after many giggles, we decided to try and find somewhere that we could buy another back box or even a patch of some sort. We stopped off at a local motor factors who really did try their best, in all fairness, but didn’t have anything we could use. We then tried *gulp*… Kwik Fit. A quick google suggested there was one a mere 4 minute drive from us. SO we hurried off in search to be right royally shafted. But, they were shut. Fuck.
To add to our woes, Mick’s mighty Honda Accord 1.8 Sport VTEC started to sound like it was choking on a big fat dooby (maybe it went for a bit of fun of its own in Amsterdam?). It wanted stall on idle unless it was revved to 1k RPM. So we took apart the throttle body and gave it a good dose of carb cleaner which flushed out what looked like the remnants of Roy Chubby Browns arse cheeks. Living in hope this would sort the issue, we reassembled and fired it up. Better, but still fucked.
Knowing that we were heading to the mecca of all things Motorsport, we decided to press on towards the ‘Ring in the hope that somewhere closer would have a replacement or something we could use as a fix.
Quick pit-stop for some fuel:
We arrived at the hotel not long before 5pm. We were staying at the Hotel An Der Nordschleife which was right next to the ‘Ring. Location was perfect. Weather, not so much! We parked up, got the keys to our room, christened the bogs and went off to explore.
Craig was pleased with the room, from his very camp pose
There had been an endurance race in the daytime, but Touristenfahrten was open between 6-7pm. We had intended on doing a few sighting laps at this time, but given the weather was awful and Mick’s car was in the infirmary, we decided to go and get some food, some beers and watch instead! Our hotel was right next to the Cockpit Café, which was superb!
We had a few beers, chucked on some Netflix in the room and hit the sack after not much sleep in the previous 48 hours!
Day 4 coming up
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