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Start: Neckarsulm / Audi Day Goal: Darmstadt Break downs: 0 but skidding 🫣 Todays driven distance: ~300km Today is Friday 13th! Oh dear!  It’s Friday, rally day #3 7:45am and 5C degrees. Brrrrrr.  Lining up… Todays route: more of beautiful Frankonia, followed by Odenwald including mountain race tracks & Castle Frankenstein as finish in Darmstadt/ Hessen. Continue reading “Rally #7_day3”

Start: Ingolstadt @ Audi Day Goal: Neckarsulm @ Audi Break downs: 0 (just loosing a bit oil) Todays driven distance: ~300km / 8hrs It’s an Audi sponsored rally. You might have guessed by now. Kicking off this morning in Ingolstadt and crossing Bavaria diagonally (including beautiful Frankonia), towards Swabia.  All you need is a car followingContinue reading “Rally #7_day2”

Start: Munich / Flugwerft Oberschleißheim Day Goal: Ingolstadt Break downs: 0 💪🏻 Todays driven distance: 150km / 4.5hrs Road work: oh yes!  Wrong way: oh yes! (not necessarily caused by the co-pilot 😉 rather a lacking roadbook… we made it to the finish line anyway) If you are the last team starting (#222 out ofContinue reading “Rally #7_day1”

✅ Last check done: tightening loose screws and cables. And the best: hubby figured out, there’s no faulty blinker… just a loose wire at the thermostat that turns on the electric fan… So whenever it came on seemed a blown blinker, but went away when cooled down 🤦🏻‍♂️😂 Ready Steady Go.  Let’s go Munich 🚗💨Continue reading “Rally #7 _Start 🏁”

13 magical days to go… until rally start.  Finally. Our first rally in 2024 (all others were cancelled…).  Start: Munich  Finish: Gießen  Start & finish – that’s all we know so far. Countdown is on. Still some things to do to have Aperoli in its best performance status.  Getting excited. The days before the rally areContinue reading “Rally #7 – 13 days to go… 🏁”

Aperolis first roadtrip in 2024 and first time in France! Bienvenue! Our goal: the beautiful Alsace in France to catch up with our Oldtimer friends. Road tripping… Sharing the road with bikes, motorcycles, Oldtimers, swans (!!!) … A trip to France without a 3 course menu? Not possible! Dream weather. Fantastic destination. Wonderful people toContinue reading “First roadtrip in 2024: Bienvenue!”

Aperoli spent pretty much all winter in a garage with great result: refreshed, renewed and most importantly, passed Tüv!!! Best news last Friday and made our day, because that means we are ready for the next rallies! Yeah! Cheers to Aperoli! Today was pick up day. Aperoli is back home! We are rolling again forContinue reading “Aperoli is back”

Another wonderful rally trip is ending. Fantastic Indian summer weather. Cruising along Germanys most beautiful side roads from one Currywurst to another. Meeting very nice people along the way and still haven’t met all rally participants after 4 days… 1 rally, 216 youngtimers, ~500 car lovers, 4 days, >1.200km, 0 breakdowns for us (98 breakdownsContinue reading “Rally #6 ~ The End”

Start: Langenhagen/Hanover Goal: Bielefeld & end of rally Todays driven distance: 330km Break downs: 0 but full breaking to make right turn Autobahn joker: 0 Good morning, Hanover! Start today at Continental in Hanover: Lunch break in Osnabrück @ VW, of course! Today no Currywurst though. Haha. Driving West today, leaving the VW world forContinue reading “Rally #6_day4”

Start: Wolfsburg Day Goal: Hannover/Langenhagen Todays driven distance: 330km Break downs: 0 Autobahn joker: 1 by the road book Bye bye WOB! Hello road! Our start time today: early… 8:38am at the Autostadt VW. Today’s route: finally leaving Wolfsburg (after early morning coordination problems…) & back in the Harz going north-west to Niedersachsen. Indian summerContinue reading “Rally #6_day3”