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Too busy eating, drinking, and dadding to pen anything properly but the drive down was awesome. Bagged one Austrian pass on the way down since we ended up doing France, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, and then Italy.
A lot of desretricted Autobahn but the Bavarians are fucking nuts. They’ll happily do 120+ on 2 lane sections, flashing their lights from half a mile off to make sure you move back over as soon as you’re done overtaking, and if it’s not clear they’ll brake at the very last second and sit 6” off your rear bumper. Volvo did an indicated 150 with plenty more to go but it was really floaty, possibly because it was mega windy, but it was quite busy so I didn’t want to push my luck.
I was trying to conserve petrol so we didn’t drive >100 for long periods but the outside lane was full of <5 year old VAG, Merc, BMW, and Porsches all doing 100+ ADL. Did see a new 991 GT2 RS doing mad speeds not far outside of Stuttgart. It had epic road presence. I did cheekily give chase but it’s bonkers fast.
Austria was amazing. I’d like to just do a week driving holiday in Austria in mid-summer. The views, the roads, the food, the people, all wonderful. It’s a wonderful country.
Italy has terrible roads in the South. That’s all I have to say about that!!
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