The Germans are obsessed with cars! And they manufacture some stellar ones: Mercedes, BMW's, and Volkswagen. But the Czechs manufacture the Skoda: A car deemed cheap, unreliable, and very possibly built with spackle.
Touching a stranger's car is tantamount to insulting their dignity. The car is sacrosanct, and the altar of all altars is the crazy Autobahn.
Our tour group traveled in a bus from Dusseldorf to Cologne on the Autobahn. It was cool to see the cars whizzing by on rain-soaked roads.
The Autobahn is a system of roads intersecting Germany, in every direction. It is their interstate system. The road has three lanes going each way: Slow, fast, and faster. By slow, I mean the bus lane, going 60 mph. The fast middle lane is about 80-90 and the faster left lane is about 100-120mph. There are very many traffic fatalities as you might imagine. Passing other cars is only permitted to the left, and not the right.
Above in the photo, is a very old French Citroen, parked in Aschaffenburg, Germany, outside the Johannesburg Castle.
I survived the Autobahn!
Your friend,
Patsie
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