Thursday 14 July 2011
The big day, that we drove to Cologne to pick up our car, our tiny home for the next year. It turned out to be incredibly complex to arrange to get this vehicle for a year's time, without paying a king's ransom or breaking international law.
Cologne (Köln) bahnof |
Inside Cologne Cathedral |
We were to meet the mechanic Sebastian but he was held up at the government office in a town nearby so we waited… and waited. Finally he came out and showed us the loaner van we could use while ours was being appraised and repaired by an insurance company. He was a DOLL! He had actually flown to Munich the night before to get us a van then drove it back to his town (near Frankfurt), got it PAINTED and fixed up then bought the correct plates at their DMV. We drove to a nearby McDonalds to conduct the business (money part) and then Charles valiantly drove home in the dark/rain/wind/new car/new road rules with Henri while Nicole, Dian and Roos led the way (and thought we each got a speeding ticket by a camera, but as it turned out ours never showed up!) - what a day!
Our "erupting volcano" potato outside Cologne Cathedral |
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