Milly the 1979 Westfalia Berlin Deluxe Bay Window Camper Van

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We wandered around the info centre & watched the truck Grand Prix qualifying. I have never bothered to watch truck racing before & I got to say I was impressed, they go real fast, make loads of noise & it gets quite exiting. The power of these machine is incredible. One of the Mercedes trucks in jaffa won & we watched the spectacle of him celebrating by doing donuts around the track, creating lots of smoke & noise. We had food in the info centre German sausage in curry sauce with french fries. We then decided to find a campsite but to get a ring card on the way. We did this & purchased 1 lap for 24 Euros. You can use this card any time in the same year, it runs out December 31st, we were to use it the next day.

I looked in the sat nav for a campsite & we found one 27 KM outside of Nurburg, we headed there & stopped off in a Lidl super market on the way, we bought Bread, Milk & BBQ food which we consumed when we got to the site, which by the way turned out to be an excellent camp site with modern facilities & very friendly staff it's called Dentl Camping Place. We booked in for 2 nights with electricity for 74 Euros which I thought was very reasonable. After we had eaten which was very late we had another round of card games before going to bed around midnight:-

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We got up early the next morning & headed back to Nurburg, we saw this interesting caravan outside the campsite & a Mini garage just outside.



we got near the Nordshcleife line only to find it was closed due to an accident, luckily this only held us up for half an hour & we got to the track at 1030 let Yvonne & Leah out & headed onto the track:-

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We got around safely & I decided to treat Milly to a new sticker for the back:-

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I was the slowest vehicle on the track by a long shot, I didn't push Milly too hard, but I didn't hang about either. I followed the golden rule, stick to the right. We did the 21K in 19min 40 seconds, which is almost double what Jeremy Clarkson done in a Jaguar XF. I didn't do it for the speed, I did it for the fun & the experience & to put a well earned Nurburg ring sticker on Milly. By the way when you hear me beeping the horn its because some of the spectators are cheering me on It was probably quite a novelty seeing such a slow vehicle driving around with all those fast ones. I was on such a high when we pulled off. I was happy that we made it around without incident & that I had managed to catch the whole episode on camera.
I'd left Yvonne & Leah behind so we picked them up as soon as we got off the finish line.

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After this adventure we wandered around looking at all the cars:-

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