I'm having to type today's blog on my phone as the hotel is only allowing one device on the network. After having to pay by the hour for wifi at the last place (not that sort of wifi!), it's not a good record for Germany so far on the Internet fronts.
Today was race day which started at 1pm and lasted 6 hours. There wasn't a lot going on before that at the circuit so I was just going to rock up an hour before. However, I got bored at the hotel so I ended up getting there at about 11.
Its a good job I did, if I thought it was busy yesterday, today was a whole other level.
I headed straight for my preferred spot and got one of the last seats, by 11:30 they'd all gone. This didn't stop people turning up 5 mins before the race, like they do at the cinema, all disappointed because there wasn't a block of 8 for their party. Idiots.
I won't bore you with a rundown of the race, but it was good and Porsche came 1st and 2nd so I was happy. With 30mins to go 2nd through to 4th were separated by half a second, so it was pretty close stuff.
As soon as the race finished I headed for the car, it's been a hot day, around 31c so the car was practically on fire.
The traffic wasn't bad considering the size of the venue, if this had been Silverstone I'd still be in the car park now. German efficiency you see.
The sat nav said it was a three hour drive which was longer than I remembered, and then I realised that I still had it avoiding motorways, so I changed that and took an hour of the journey.
This also meant that it was autobahn time, although the one I was on to start with was restricted to 130kph. Still it was full of more BMWs and Mercedes than you'd find at your typical Sikh wedding.
Eventually I got to the unrestricted section but it was now night time, and as the road was unlit it was hard to judge closing speeds and which lane people were in. Still I tried my hardest in the little fiesta but I got mullered by the flock of BMWs that were in such a rush you'd think they were off to Poland again.
Finally in frankfurt I found the hotel easily, go to love Here sat nav, free, offline and actually works. However my hotel is in the middle of the bar district which is good unless you want to park. I drove around for 15mins and didn't so much as park, more abandoned.
The receptionist kindly showed me where the hotel parking was by opening the back door. Thanks, real helpful.
Frankfurt is also very warm, far hotter than at the track and there is no aircon. It is literally dripping off me in the hotel room. It's a good job I have one bottle of heated fizzy water left to see me through!
I can hear fireworks outside, or AAA fire, not sure which, I'm going to bed and hope the allies win.
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