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Leaving Italy was a slow business, we were all really hungover after a night on the beer in Florence and Firesole and hadnt slept a whole lot after the massive thunderstorm all night, which meant that everything was soaked. Eventually we got a phonecall from the BMW dealer saying our new hose was in, so we set off across florence as it started monsooning again, we stopped a few times when there was too much steam to see through, but made it to the dealer in the end and Tim and Dean changed the water hose while I tried to convince my bank not to cancel my creditcard! The really odd part was the toilet in the BMW dealer had a bidet...wheres the camera when you need it!

We'd planned to go to Oktoberfest in Munich and get extremely drunk for a few days, but after we'd checked out of the hotel in a random town near Munich we figured we'd had enough of camping in the rain and we should press on to The Ring. Most of day 8 was spent driving across Germany, the wonderful Autobahns that I'd heard so much about were a big contrast to the fast flowing toll-roads of Italy and France, we spent most of the day sat in traffic jams and ended up going a very odd route after my random detour ended up in a closed road.

The next morning we were up bright and early and were out almost as soon as the track opened. It was a little moist at first, and Dean had some fun doing little drifts before getting a bit carried away, we all took it quite gently after that! As usual there was a good mix of interesting cars up at the paddock, and plenty of cool people to chat to during the all too frequent track closures.

We chilled at the ring for a few more days, ate a lot more raw steaks and drank a few huge beers