After our first evening camping in a tent together since Zambia - all that was missing was chocking Connor by spraying deet in an enclosed tent - we woke up at the crack of dawn or a few hours there after. Since the showers were broken we completed the transition to full blown hobos by wiping ourselves down with baby-wipes (each wiping ourselves in private, we're not that close yet). After tossing all our stuff in the car we spun our globe and stuck a knife in it to choose our destination, our globe is inflatable though so we just pointed to the map and put it in the GPS. Just like that we set off to Luxembourg, a country famous for having a city call Luxembourg in it.

 

After an uneventful drive to Luxembourg we set about circling the city in search of a parking lot. Not because we were lost but because the city planning department decided every car park should be sign posted by the longest route possible. Upon our 19th trip around the city we pulled up beside a fellow team of ralliers - presumably they had also been stuck in circles looking for a car park. We formed a convoy of two vehicles and headed into the city, parked up and had a wonder around. They were a team of two women from Canada, driving a big Subaru. Unlike us they have the luxury of time and have scheduled around 4 months to complete the trip. We spent awhile wondering the streets of Luxembourg with them before saying good bye and heading back on the road towards Munich.

 

Germany has a lovely rule in their highway code saying that for more than half of the Autobahnn there is no fixed speed limit and the driver may drive as fast as is safe for the current conditions. This gave us the ideal opportunity to see how fast our little beast can reach before all the wheels fall off. We chose our zone carefully (making sure it was actually derestricted) by the level of downhill-ness. With gravity on outside we can easily reach 102mph before traffic rudely interrupted. After sending a message out to the rally Facebook group it seems we currently hold the land speed record - ignoring the guy with the Ferrari, because screw him and his Ferrari.

 

The rain started in Germany, and we're in Germany now and it is still hammering it down, so I can only assume Germany only has rain to offer. We pulled off the road to find a place to stay, the fact LEGOLAND was here may have affected our decision to take the exit we did, and followed the nearest directions to a campsite. Assuming the rain would stop we had a pint and some schnitzel in the pub and waited for it all to blow over. It seemed the rain had other ideas so we headed out to put the tent up in the rain. Putting up a tent in the rain differs from putting one up in the dry as it has a significantly more shouting/swearing/half-assing involved. After getting soaked we headed back into the pub since they had what all good pubs have, a solid roof and beer. Before we left Chris had a seemingly bright idea to use the car and tarpaulin to give us a little sheltered tunnel. We arrived back the tent to find we now have the addition of a small swimming pool collect up for tomorrow mornings' bath (again two separate baths, we're still not that close yet).