If 'Ring trips were champagne, this would be a vintage year!
Thanks of course to 'SES Tours' head honcho, Ian, for sorting all the bookings and generally making the trip work for everyone! (although I was disappointed that you didn't take us all up the castle!)
Weirdly, one of my favourite bits of the trip was Sunday morning/lunchtime standing around eating bratwurst and chips in the rain in the car park at Brunchen. Steve and I had just done a couple of laps in the wet which (in comparison to the dry laps) were fairly tame. Because I could actually tear my eyes away from the kerbs/traffic/mirrors/rapidly-approaching crash barriers, I saw bits of the track I hadn't noticed before, watched the mist hanging in the trees up near Hohe Acht and (at the risk of sounding girly) kind of saw another side to the place - the history, the 'ghosts' of previous thrills and spills - it brought a little smile to my face as we slip-slided our way round.
As for the hot stone steak on Saturday night... well, I've already been on eBay to see if I can buy a lava stone of my own... and a herd of cattle to go with it!
Thanks all for such a fab weekend!
