Hildesheim and Autostadt calling

Yesterday I didn't have proper access to internet so two days worth of updates in this post. So we left Copenhagen early Wednesday morning and headed towards Germany. The Big Belt bridge was very quickly crossed so I don't personally think it is anything that special while you're driving it. Because it was raining and my travel companion, The Driver, had gotten enough of Denmark as a land.
 We drove with minimal stops until outskirts of Hamburg, where we had very filling lunch in nice restaurant. After watching some blindfolded horses grazing grass at a pasture, we headed on until we reached our destination (around 680 kilometers away) at a nice little city called Hildesheim.

My experience of the German autobahn as a passenger was a bit confusing. I've always heard about the people driving speeds like 180-200 km/h in normal driving conditions. We were able to accelerate to 200 km/h only maybe two times, mostly traffic flow on the fast lane was going at speeds of 130-140 km/h, depending on the road condition. The middle lane (where existed) however had no "standard speed" you could easily determine, the slow lane was always, well slow. Few times there were some maniacs doing tailgating at about 160 km/h speeds and there are no such thing as speed safety gaps here, people drive always too close. Even at rainy conditions.

At Hildesheim we went as a first thing to buy a mobile internet which didn't due to operator problem start working until a day later. Otherwise we just chilled at the city at a cafe hiding from the rain. Our hotel Novotel boasts four stars at the lobby but I feel three stars would be more suitable as there was no air con or safety deposit box in the room. Of course this is a big step from the Copenhagen tiny bunk bed room but still at this price (90 EUR for double) I would have expected better.
We, as usual on my trips, ended up having a large family with ADHD children as our room neighbours so personally I didn't sleep too well as the little bastards started racketing at about 7 or 8 morning. I though we were lucky that the checked out, but it seems a similar big family has occupied the room on the other side. I frightfully await for the wake up at 7 am.

Autostadt did have some cool cars

As for today we made a day trip to Autostadt in Wolfsburg. We drove using tiny backroads and saw cool little towns on the way. The pavement condition in every village varied greatly and in some places we had really rough ride. In my opinion Autostadt has way too much fluff and way too few cars. Having seen both the Mercedes and Porsche museums in Stuttgart earlier, I feel Autostadt has nothing on them. It's nice but but not that nice. We ate late lunch at some bistro in Wolfsburg which served huge currywurst portion with fries for only 5,50 eur.

When we headed back to Hildesheim we got our first experience of the dreaded stau at autobahn, we crawled 10 km/h speed for several dozen kilometers. Boy it wasn't fun. They are to be avoided at all costs.

At the evening we went to indoor karting track. I drove about 20 minutes, while The Driver did 30 mins. I liked it a lot but I suck at that sport too. I lapped times about 10 seconds slower than others and got bumped three times by other kart cars. Fun but exhausting.

Tomorrow's direction is towards Mainz and Adenau.