Nürburgring and countryside

Started driving in the morning from Hildesheim towards a little village, Nachtsheim, in which we had booked our next room in a small B&B type gasthaus. After driving multiple autobahns and many winding local serpent roads, we finally reached the village a bit over 400-450 km from our starting point. The house where we should have checked in was empty when we arrived about 1-2pm so we headed out to find lunch (the local restaurant was also on the same lunch siesta and thus closed). We ended up choosing a city called Mayen as it looked like a bigger one on the map.

Indeed we arrived to a mid sized town with some cafes and restaurants. We ate at a kebab/pizza place as it was one of the cheaper restaurants not having a German siesta at the time. The spaghetti bolognese I took was pretty good and plentiful. This is the very first time I've encounterd this German lunch time siesta thing. I don't know if it's regional or customary to older towns but it makes life irritating. Restaurant owners are having their ĺunch when you would like to have lunch - how annoying is that?!

Another thing I've encountered this trip is the very bad credit card acceptance rate everywhere. Many gas stations only take Mastercard, if that and most even mid size town cafes and restaurants won't accept but cash. I've only been to big cities before this trip and in those credit cards are very well accpeted. But seems they don't lie about the issue in travel guides.

Anyway after lunch in Mayen we set our direction to Nürburgring formula 1 track as on Fridays they open the track to public for few hours so everyone willing can take their car (they also rent race cars) or motorcycle to real race track for a lap (abt. 15 euros for one lap). Well The Driver wanted to see how his car perfoms (loaded with our luggage and stuff). The atmosphere at the track was interesting, like everybody was there to race even in ther station wagons. You could feel the tension, adrenaline and gas in the air. Vey relaxed masculine, even though many German men had forced their wifes / girlfriends as passengers. I only watched as The Driver set out to the track, I think it was all in all a special occasion for The Driver and his car so I didn't want to ruin it for him by being scared shitless in the passenger seat. The Driver apparently had a very nice lap ad after we let the car cool down, we headed to Nachtsheim to see our room in the B&B exsisted.

I'd race in that

We were greeted by the house owners, nice German couple and two of their nice dogs. Our room was waiting and we brought our luggage in. We headed out for dinner to the earlier closed local restaurant had a cheap and ok dinner. The restaurant boasts and interesting collection of camera and videocameras from different decades. Also the restaurant staff were nice relaxed people. The restaurant also acts as a small hotel and based on the brouchure their rooms would have been nice too.

The room we have in this B&B is spacious and clean but a bit cold. Also the bathroom smells of gasoline. I wonder if the owner does some engine repairs in the house that cause the smell there. Otherwise ok for the 60 eur price since we have a good wireless internet and breakfast is included.

For tomorrow we don't have exact plans yet but most likely towards Luxenburg border in the Mosel wine area.