Fri 23, Arrival - Welcome to Germany!
April 2010 tour.
My latest tour in NRW, last April, starts on Friday 23, a few days after resumption of flights. I arrive with a delay of nearly 1h. I take the car and start driving towards the Hotel in Dusseldorf. Highway after highway, I remember at once that I have to buy those things not allowed in the hand held luggage: shaving foam, collutorium, body cream, etc.. So I decide to exit the highway, to continue via normal roads, hoping of finding a store of this stuff along the road. This apparently shouldn’t be difficult, I usually was fortunate in other occasions. But this time no. I find no store, instead at a certain point, while I am entering yet another village, I notice a suspect car, parked in shadow, alone under a tree. “What the hack is that?” I thought, “could it be…?”, I put my foot on the brake, but… flash! It’s too late. I make an U turn to check out. I realize the car is full accessorized with telemetry, camera, computers, etc., and a guy is peacefully sat on the passenger seat letting the machines do the job. The window glasses are lowered, so I approach the guy and ask him about my passage a few minutes before. The guy turns his head, like awaking from a nap. I am impressed by a piece of dried snot pending from his nose! He speaks only German, but I understand that he says I was driving too fast. Of course. The limit is 50 and, if the light flashed, I was driving > 59 km/h. He cannot tell how much is the fine because everything is automatic, I will receive it at home. All right guys. Welcome to Germany!
Getting fined in Germany (or the Netherlands), being used to Italian standards, is a somewhat higher risk. In fact this is the 3rd fine that I get, since I am doing these tours. However fines are relatively low. In the past I paid something like 15-35€, expenses included, and this time I hope it won't be different.
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Good luck Myrmd.; may the ash clouds evaporate
[QUOTE=Myrmidon]Just confirmed my booking to Frankfurt tomorrow.... Cannot believe the number of empty seats on the plane over....
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If I remember correctly you were set for a trip you had been planning for about a year, when suddenly it was aborted because of volcanic ash clouds, yes?
I note that just today there are renewed warnings of continued interruptions in flights. Shit! I sincerely hope that you will get out okay! Do you have a back up bankroll to see you through extended stay just in case you make it into Frankfurt, but volcanic activity next week strands you in Germany? Wouldn't that be a shame...?
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