[s-cars] Out for das Fest/What to see in Germany?

[James C. Masaru Mairs]

Hey Dave, 

Make a trip there normally 1 or 2 times a year, last stay was for a month.
Sadly it was a lot of work... Luckily one of the owners of the company lent
me his RS4 for near the duration.  Company picked up the gas bill, thank
god.  Normally going there is all about traveling all over the place via
car, some times tight schedules so don’t get to stop at many places I would
like to.  Course there is nothing wrong with going to North / West / East /
South GmbH all in the same week via car.  245kmph and you can close the
distance well.

Only thing I would note for sure if traveling via car, make sure it has a
NAV system, and preference for Traffic updates as well.  There are just
certain places that traffic is crazy stand still type deals, I personally
found driving around the back roads very enjoyable, and a preference to
sitting in traffic.  Half the towns/cities besides the large notable ones I
couldn’t even pronounce and finding my way around without a NAV was very
annoying, especially at night.

Some thoughts on places to go or things to drive to see while there.
Perhaps they wont fit your schedule but for me they were on the must see
list.

http://www.willkommeninkoeln.de/11sight/sight26e.htm  Highly recommended as
an at least stop in and see.  I was lucky enough to time a run to the local
train station for a pickup of equipment I needed to viewing this beauty at
Sunrise...  Not a religious person per say but it was GODLY of a site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%BCrburgring Had the fortune of making 2
runs here, laughable as one was in an RS4, the other was in a Ummm.. yeah I
am not going to even say how horrid the second was to take there.  Thinking
this is a bit of a haul to get there for you, but everything in GmbH is
within car driving distance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie Not sure this was the most
exciting thing perhaps unless you can get a feel for the roots and history
here.  I just wanted to see it and perhaps be there as a "been there done
that."  Local tourist trap for sure, but again I needed to see it.

http://www.dresden.de/dwt/en/sights.php, Dresden GmbH, I spent a lot of my
visiting time in this city, Nice place, parent company I work for is close
to here.  Visiting the OLD Green room is a must if there, the new Green room
(Treasury Spoils) is not the same.  One of the only places I have ever been
where the riches are NOT locked up.  They are all in open displays, as such
though getting tickets is hard, and they MOVE you right along when viewing,
it’s a timed event Run Run... cause they need to limit the number of folks
in the room and such.  Either case nice smallerish place in general.  The
local Church has a lot of interesting history as well.  If your near Dresden
you can also check out Basti, cool mountain range and on a clear day you can
see quite far.  Pics of Basti and such can be seen on my myspace page,
myspace.com/titaniumnation and perhaps don’t do it justice at all.

Either way enjoy your trip, stay away from larger hotels or such (IMO) the
smaller local places always seem to have a great atmosphere resembling a bit
more like a larger bed and breakfast deal, with normally a great
restaurant/pub built in.  Folks are generally nice, and from my self
lUrnings while there Ausfahrt is not a city.... *blink*

Yadda Yadda Beer is good.

Enjoy your trip Dave.

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-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Dave Kase
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 11:48 AM
To: pkrasusky at ups.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Out for das Fest/What to see in Germany?

Hah!  I figured if my B5 S4 were not good enough then F the fest, I'm 
going to Germany.

I goggle-mapped last night and I will be close to das 'ring.  Tommy G. 
hooked me up with a site I can actually read (I could only find it in 
German last night) and I be goin' for it.  Duh!  What was I thinking? 

Dave  -'been f'd hard and put away wet-  Kase


pkrasusky at ups.com wrote:
>  
> Dave //SUCKED:
>  
> <<<Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:06:14 -0400 (EDT)
> From: davekase at pdqlocks.com
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Out for das Fest/What to see in Germany?
>  
> Thanks Gentlemen.
>  
> -one castle on hilltop - check...>>>
>  
>  
>  
> First of all CHEESEMAN...
>  
> FU - you _SUCK_.  What, the threat of parking you against the Port O 
> Pot gotchya spooked???  _PU_SAY_.
>  
> That said...
>  
> Castle schmastle...  I *cannot* believe you even need to be asking 
> "this" question.  Fahg.  See, is there REALLY any place in DE to go 
> other than...
>  
> ...the one...
>  
> ...and only...
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> .
> ...NORDSCHLEIFE!?!?!?!?!?!?
>  
> If it's a castle you must, well...  der Nordschleife does in fact 
> feature one somewheres around its 13.7mi. circumference.  You can see 
> it when you're burning hotlaps - but at that point...  who cares???
>
> DOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEEET.
>
> -Paul must Ring again K.
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>  
>  
> ps. ____FU_____
>  
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