A nice vacation to Eurocade

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Everything started with this strange message
Greetings Programs:
3
9
11
51.87
4.60
Be there.
No replies.
More later.

Hmmm., for the first sight just strange numbers, but as I'm a big fan of Tron and I like riddles, it didn't last longer than a few minutes to figure it out.
The first three numbers were a date: 3 september 2011.
The next two numbers are the coordinates of Ridderkerk, The Netherlands.
After a few minutes I replied to André and informed him, that he can count on us.
Let's start the story of this beautiful roadtrip.
Originally we were planned to start on Wednesday, but we had an instant idea to spend a night in Wien and have some fun there.
Final cleaning and loading the cab and "some" other arcade stuff:

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Not too much space left:






Time to leave

The first etap was just 250 kms to Austria.
Crossing the former border

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First traffic jam in Wien

We had some fun on the world's tallest roundabout and a nice dinner in our favourite restaurant



This time we shared one portion of Ully's favourite food, but we were unable to eat it all

The new magic castle in Prater

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Day 2, heading to Frankfurt
Passing the beautiful Abbey of Melk

Ideal roadtrip conditions in the first 200 kms, nice weather, empty roads

Entering Germany



As always, road constructions in every 20 km.




After an hour of traffic jam, road cleared

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Passing some nice wineyards near Frankfurt

And after 700 kms of driving this day, we arrived to our nice lakeside hotel in the outskirts of Frankfurt








In the evening we've met Zita's friends Björn and Stefi in downtown Frankfurt, there was a huge wine festival there

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Day 3
Heading to Essen
The sky above Flughafen Frankfurt




After a few hours, we arrived to Essen, where we visited The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex, which is a large former industrial site.

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2 of her

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Day 4
Heading to Ridderkerk
Our radio station was DLF of course, like Michael's

Entering the Netherlands



The first Windmill

And finally we arrived to our beautiful hotel

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I received a message from André just a few minutes before we arrived, I called him from the hotel and arranged unloading.
Let's go meet the guys at the clubhouse.
André, Pieter, Robin and Erik were there and they were so curious about my overloaded car.



Let's unload the Space Pirate

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After some nice chat with these super nice guys, we visited the awesome windmills of Kinderdijk

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Some pics from Rotterdam







Opening bridges

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Day 5
We had a great time with all the boys and girls at Eurocade.

Day 6
Heading to Brussels
Entering Belgium

Arriving Brussels

Day7
I woke up aerly, because that was the first day of my Nephew in his school after the summer holidays, he asked me to take him there.

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We had a nice belgian breakfast and started back to Germany through Luxenbourg and France.
Entering Luxenbourg

Free carwash 

Entering France

Arriving Triberg in Schwarzwald, which is a beautiful small city in the Black forest

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The famous clocks

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We also visited the source of the river Danube (Donau), it is interesting for us, because this river splits our capital to Buda and Pest.
The river at Triberg:

And in Budapest:

Some more pics from the area