Euro Tour Part 3

The following morning brought an overcast outlook and an occasional spot of drizzle, we decided to pop along to the Nurburgring to check out availability of Nordschlieffe tickets, we had decided before we went that we would have a crack at doing a lap of the famous circuit. We followed signs for the circuit but these brought us to the GP part of the track, so we popped into the cafe (a bit of a theme that) and chatted to the waitress who directed us to the Nordschlieffe entrance, we called into the ticket office and they told us that tourist tickets were not available until after 5pm, so, what to do until then.

On our way to our digs the day before, we noticed a kids adventure park with restaurant, so we decided to give that a try, the food was spot on and while stuffing our faces we watched people coming and going to a kids tobbogan run, we popped across to have a look, it looked cool but was obviously for kids. "It would be cool" i said "if we went down that in our bike gear, helmets and all" everyone agreed.

So we paid our money, donned our gear and set off with warnings about it being really fast when wet still ringing in our ears. "It'll be right" said KG, and it was, it was a proper laugh out loud experience, and a few people gathered on one of the bridges to watch these daft Brits go down the run in bike gear. By time we got to run number 3, we were getting confident, i was in front and on one long 180 degree bend the little cart flipped from under me and i continued for a bit on my arse, "oh shit" KG was right behind me and just managed to come to a stop before crashing in to me, he realised Grifter was behind him and done a perfect SAS roll off his cart onto the grass bank (Klingon would be so proud) Grifter rounded the bend and slammed straight into me, it was carnage, until we realised that Zippy was next down, we couldn't warn him in time but we were all off track so he slammed into all our carts and went sliding down the track. The people watching loved it (sicko's).

Another 2 or 3 runs followed, this time with H-Boss joining in the fun, but alas we had to leave, we had an appointment with a certain race track

Bungle