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Le Mans to Berlin and a bit beyond
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Aussie Martin Berry has dropped his LMGT3 Merc (#61) into the first Mulsanne chicane - having had an innocent spin a few moments earlier.
He radioed the Team to say that he might have broken the splitter.
Yeah, and the rest!
He radioed the Team to say that he might have broken the splitter.
Yeah, and the rest!
Oops!
Dries has tagged the #3 LMP2 car at the Porsche Curves and given himself a puncture on which he had to run a complete lap.
The podium has gone …
Received this txt from my mate yesterday:-
He was on his way to La Rochelle and decided to stop there on the way…. he didn’t know it was race weekend
I say old boy! Those fireworks were quite impressive!
You obviously don’t get the display properly on the TV but they were a LOT better than the ones you get in London for the new year event.
You obviously don’t get the display properly on the TV but they were a LOT better than the ones you get in London for the new year event.
Looks like your having a Grand time in your New Wee Tonka Truck Mr Wapping!! 
A very good race overall, with Toyota coming from near enough the back of the Hypercar field to finish first and third, split by a BMW. Cadillac, fourth in a strong performance to head off Ferrari.
A great performance from Inter Europol to finish first and second, with Corvette striking back to win the GT class.
All pretty much very close going into the last hour, with only seconds dividing many of the front leaders.
A great performance from Inter Europol to finish first and second, with Corvette striking back to win the GT class.
All pretty much very close going into the last hour, with only seconds dividing many of the front leaders.
Monday…. Up and about (I’d done all my packing away on Sunday) and next stop Metz….
I like Metz.
It’s a nice city.
I’m staying at the municipal campsite for one night, whose entrance is definitely not where Google maps thinks it is.
It is on an island, in the middle of the Moselle river, right in the city centre (and having driven around the very narrow roads of what I take to be the city’s high school) is found hidden away down a very badly signposted one way road. I turned up without a reservation and was lucky to get a space for the one night. I was surprised it was so full, given that we are still in the low season.
There are lots of touristy type bars and restaurants in the squares and streets around the central cathederal:
And eating places for the more discerning Tosser on tour, too:
And, bang in the middle of town, a mini-supermarket for DIY scran ‘n brew:
And, bang in the middle of town, a mini-supermarket for DIY scran ‘n brew:
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All in all, an attractive enough place for a night or two:
Tuesday, overcast with patches of rain.
A good enough journey, despite the (as expected) traffic from Mainz through to well past Frankfurt.
My overnight campsite is a little south of Erfurt:
www.campingplatz-hohenfelden.de
Again, I took pot luck that they’d have a space for me, based (if nothing else) on the site’s website which showed it as being quite large. I was in luck as, again, it quite busy:
It does have a remarkably smart power and water point:
And very good WiFi.
A good enough journey, despite the (as expected) traffic from Mainz through to well past Frankfurt.
My overnight campsite is a little south of Erfurt:
Campingplatz Thüringen | Am See bei Erfurt Hohenfelden
Campingplatz am See bei Erfurt: Campingplatz Stausee Hohenfelden mit Zelten, Stellplätzen, Ferienhäusern und Erholung in Thüringen. Jetzt buchen!
www.campingplatz-hohenfelden.de
Again, I took pot luck that they’d have a space for me, based (if nothing else) on the site’s website which showed it as being quite large. I was in luck as, again, it quite busy:
It does have a remarkably smart power and water point:
And very good WiFi.
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Tomorrow should find me at my final destination, east of Berlin between the Seelow Heights and the river Oder / the border with Poland, which is not far away.
The little markers are the assorted points I’ve collected together and all relevant to the sector for the Russian ‘Battle for Berlin’ and the ‘Halbe Pocket’. I’ll have to see how many I can take in, starting over the border in Poland by visiting the fortified city formerly known as Kustrin, when it was part of Germany. It’s now very much a part of Poland, the territory ceded to them when Poland was chopped up at the end of the war.
The city was the scene of very heavy fighting, leading up to and during the Russian’s hard fought crossing of the Oder river and their three day battle to take the Seelow Heights, also known as the ‘Gateway to Berlin’:
The little markers are the assorted points I’ve collected together and all relevant to the sector for the Russian ‘Battle for Berlin’ and the ‘Halbe Pocket’. I’ll have to see how many I can take in, starting over the border in Poland by visiting the fortified city formerly known as Kustrin, when it was part of Germany. It’s now very much a part of Poland, the territory ceded to them when Poland was chopped up at the end of the war.
The city was the scene of very heavy fighting, leading up to and during the Russian’s hard fought crossing of the Oder river and their three day battle to take the Seelow Heights, also known as the ‘Gateway to Berlin’:
Highlights from Le Mans 2026:
Wednesday and the sun has remembered its job in June.
Final leg of my outward trip from Le Mans, today.
Final leg of my outward trip from Le Mans, today.
enjoying this thank you for taking the time to put in the detail 
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