Broadsword Calling Danny Boy

Well that last post got a little morose in places, didn’t it? No such nonsense this time around! (I can’t guarantee that it will be nonsense free, just free of morose nonsense.) I’m also trying to write a little more regularly than previously, which should be made all the more easier by virtue of the …

Wolfsburg 2002

It’s scary to think that it’s now 11 years ago since Brad and I undertook our first German road trip. It was a trip that would see us drive over 800 miles in our rented Seat Vario, taking in Lübeck, Berlin, Leipzig (and Colditz Castle), Wolfsburg and finally Hamburg. This was in the days before …

Postcards From Wolfsburg

Back in 2002 me and my good buddy Brad (now the proud owner of Carlos the Karmann Ghia) went on an 800 mille road trip around northern Germany. Our trusty hire car (a Seat Vario!) took us from Hamburg to Berlin, to Leipzig and then the home of VW – Wolfsburg. We might have got …