16 July 2004
Saturday morning at 6: 15, the alarm sounded on time-the mist of singletrack. Bye bye last night with the police, back to the apartment has a little more tired and clock. lying in bed, wanted a sleep till. can sleep for a while awake, earn a look, we must start clock-to work for a few, or sleep, then climb up and drink some water, turn on the computer, the familiar MP3 only hear four went back to lay down the alarm goes off to, but you don't want to get up the spirit of practicing car last night-is too nervous, strained, but did not sleep well.
In a hurry to eat two pieces of bread, called colleagues to get to the parking lot. far saw that the car is still there. also good, no stolen. well large parking, Park full of car last night, even a parking spaces are not found, this morning was empty and only left two cars-we love to Park Ford solitude in the center of approaching a see., night birds apparently our roof also had a big Party, leaving a Wolf Books, wrong, it should be a bird books a-pipe so much, luggage into the trunk, map them to a colleague, then start to walk.
European summer dawn early today weather good, a little sun on the car-rarely. two traffic lights after we lost, because my colleagues refused to look at the map. wait until she finally ever understand where we are, still there up to turn or turn left, the elevated highway traveled is coming to light in the mouth-a look, there is a left-turn lane on A67, can be exactly what we want to go too high speed .OK,. green light is on, turn left, on the way-1234, hang accelerate, to a four-shift, speed table has reached 100, look left, no car, hit the left lamp, tap the direction, we have to roll with the flow. harsh sunlight then straight over. we are Xiangdong walk.
A high speed, manual transmission and automatic shift has no difference between high speed in m-I on the crazy experience finally sent Vilanculos, considered as I restore point facial. original for safety's sake, stay in right lane, but soon got caught in a big truck, not Super is not driving a manual m-I remember well, don't talk back in the big truck, too dangerous. This is not a super is collected, large trucks, small broken cars, drag cars, vacation houses all the way over to see speed table., has 120. occasionally see the speed limit of 100 marks, but it seems the right road cars ran faster than this but my back-kept up with the car, let it cannot fast.
European highway is good, just as with the m-everyone is abiding by the rules, apart from some guy is not playing all the lights change cable. right of large goods vehicle is always in the left lane, the lane car after overtaking generally come back to the right lane. nor is the density is very high-recall guangshengaosu embellishments and s-walking guy, it's horrible! European high-speed exit sign is not the same as with the m-personal view or the m system is good with numbers. meter marked exits, just remember that before you leave on which the number of high-speed, exit out or change other high-speed, generally you won't go wrong. Europe is like China, marked geographical names, it is not easy to remember, but along the guidelines still clear.
Eastward along the A67, did not see any relevant border or border control and something that we already have in place names in the territory of Germany into German-, Benz BMW also up. I nervously optimistic about repeatedly urged colleagues, as we enter the map-Germany, to change the speed, and the map ID sounds very Strange. Fortunately, there are more than 10 km, the traffic on the direction of Cologne began to the transformation of-export, a sharp turn of trail directly we introduced 57, highway. This relieved, ran the 57, Cologne.
Almost an hour later, we ran out of 57, no export marks (like Chinese high-speed toll stations and large gyratory loft), we went into the streets of the city of Cologne-shot down the map did not help, follow the traffic signs guidelines, go to the city centre, will soon see the traffic on a prior check good carpark Dom name, all the way down the arrow down, very smoothly into the underground parking lot for the time being. 8: 30 in the morning-but not too much, we just ran for two hours.
From the stair climbs up to the surface, drill, Cologne Cathedral towering to stand in front of us in the original Dom-Cathedral is it premature to below., Cathedral square in front of only a handful of pedestrian and occasional foreigners tours. thought will see crowds of Chinese tour groups, even not in the square took some pieces as we went in to the inside of the Church, many tourists free of charge.; far Church Central, choir singing hymns, people remember sacred feeling. Church building has a lot of character. throughout the Hall has several storeys high, and very impressive, I feel the people at insignificance in front of God.
Beyond the Cathedral is the famous Rhine River, and of course we look out from the Cathedral, just run along the Bank of the River., is a sliding antique Hotel and a lot of small restaurants, there is taste from far away land, in the hotel in the night, it should be quite good. We also stuffed into one looked at the prices, 50 euro, not cheap Oh. River there are cruise ships, also to other cities of the ship. had the time, take a boat along the Rhine and, feeling should also be very good.
Go through the Rhine River, is noon, it is lunch time. would like to eat authentic meals, judged the Germany River these specialized services for tourists in small restaurant is sure not to leave the Bank, the appetite-to the town go unconscious and go-to-one on the age of the building into a look at that-was a Roman Church-Cathedral of scale than smaller, fewer tourists also to little, yard a none. Cathedral is known as a strong, it is said that the second station air have not destroyed it, and this little Rome-Church is fallen. Fortunately, Xu is it
The decline of the sect also.Leave the little church, cross the street, is a huge department store can't go in and turn-around, looked at the price from the market come out the other door, turned out to be pedestrian street, not lively, feeling like the Nanjing Road in Shanghai, human giant is indeed more. Germany's fourth largest city walk as far as we can see the street very live playing their music. habenula to walk all the way to go by, finally saw the restaurant waitress and learn with colleagues-a German, convinced that there is Germany's food-take a look at the shop of the guests, not an Asian. good, here. The menu is not read, feel free to point a bar there is a picture of .Icecream, find what you want on it.
After the meal, 1400. stroll in the streets, invisible Cathedral of two spires. open map is working on it, a middle-aged women initiative from Germany are friendly to ask do we find the road-Germany people are so friendly! down her direction, turn a bend, the Cathedral is now we walk and not too far back to the Cathedral-the square, a very different scene with morning. seething!
Next to the parking, took the car, very smoothly before stopping on the export of railing (fixed-point stopping it practiced well. hehe ...).
Counting on the parking card into the machine, to coin it, didn't think the machine ate only card and cast out, that response did not ask the next lane. rush of renxiong how paying. also soil a back-handed the original is to advance money to a rush of. gestured followed by car to the other lane, take the car out.Turn over the money, well out of the parking, with feeling all the way to open down. go to look at the map, but soon lost patience. Fortunately, will soon see the high-speed directive. may only last a high-speed road junctions, missed the left lane, hesitating between the car straight track ran down the anxious Ah. heart-to the next traffic lights, no holds barred, see turn the light on to emphasise the heads according to our experience, last night's lost lost the race to find a familiar place first, so they decided to go back to the city centre-back to the city centre, in the sight of critical information, road signs and missed opportunity, but to turn left and go to the front of a small intersection turn this failure was a good time to see the past Road opposite there is a petrol station, go back to just put the oil added to stand out from the oil, and follow the instructions, and finally back on the road No. 57.
High speed on the car ran quickly. my speedometer will soon have to 140. However, body suddenly dither badly, especially the left front wheel, seems inappropriate, heart Kurtz wheel does not air the? speed down, feel like a little better so ran dozens. km, again for high speed, according to the guidelines on the map, point to export out Moer-but did not think there are two Road exit, turn left along the road in, they themselves got 40, highway. Colleagues have a look at the map, that should be 40, highway, yes-but ran ran, we feel that the roadside scenery with comes as. I would also like to do, so they built a high-speed or ring? so that we will soon enter a city, street signs, displays, we had come to Essen. The colleagues at map, was a breath of air. we run in the wrong direction!
No fake La. out-at the crossing did not dare take the u-turn. Turning to the left. run for a long time did not see the appropriate place to turn, and then turn to the left, right, front left hand-alas there is a residential area in the path, you should be able to turn on, turn into repeat. front turn left, better still, walk back to watching. eh, the main road, direction was just right-right then ran, managed to see instructions on high speed.
So in Essen city centre and a circle, back to 40, highway, is already at half past 5.6 o'clock to us but also the car was a desperate-speed unconsciously to 160. look at the rear-view mirror, rear was still pressing a couple of Mercedes-Benz's performance, it is really a good Ah! let to the right, and slowly let speed reduced to 140. this body has not shaken.
This long running for almost an hour, I saw another sign, the Netherlands, in front of a km back to only be this out a bit with the border relationship. strange to say, in Germany, or in the skies, bright sun, the territory of the Netherlands, after it began to rain. colleagues wanted to swap I practise high speed, see rain hit tuitang unit.
There are 20 to 30 km from Eindhoven, colleagues and shout to open a rest stop., the entered a short rest, for colleagues to back on the road ran the first performance of high-speed, colleagues, in addition to habitually good wheel lead car pendulum to swing to. 20-kilometer road in a blink of an eye ran out. we still have a few hundred meters are going to get down to high speed, the rain just suddenly turned into a storm, such as Note-raindrops intensively hit the windshield, just like heaven to splash down. Wiper and brush, but still barely saw in front of the vehicle's rear. soon met the first red light, parking space, I open the big lamps-at the next intersection, at the time of the adoption of a crossroads when seen in the city centre to turn we again lost. the road gets narrower, turned into a two-way two lane. car suddenly left the pendulum swing, almost opposite to come with the car hit immediately to the right-colleagues and beat the next direction, the second half of the car immediately came when when a crisp sound. I rush to turn back, rear window glass also, do not know what smash, shocked out of a sweat-quickly find a place to Park, slowly turn. rainy day's sake, u-turn, the two sides of the cars were lined up in a long, but no one was there.
Then walked, rain small. Netherlands weather just waiting for us to Hertz-, day actually clear up, there are road in the sky at sunset, was nice. Think of the Clapham, just like the rain dream. His car parked, shell wipe clean, take all things after the car keys go to throw into the mail
In the end of our journey this time feel that-really hungry!Appendix:
Total spend:
Car rental: 30 Euro
Gasoline: 44.6 Europe
Parking fee: 13.6 Europe
Total: 88.2 Europe
Lessons learned: parking fees online enquiries should be 1.2 euro/hour, 10 euro a day-I didn't expect to pay, is 0.6 Euro/20 min, day 19 euro. depressed for a long time., I knew after the Cathedral should pull out of the turning-point can be more, but also can save time and parking fees.
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