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Good Friday; clear blue skies with glorious sunshine - a 160 mile round-trip to a well-known beauty-spot through stunning scenery with nice twisty roads and barely any traffic at all. That's right...virtually empty roads. :D

I was able to put my foot down whenever I felt like it, which was often, or slow down to enjoy the views...
I wasn't held up by slow drivers or stuck behind caravans or lorries (HGVs are banned from driving on religious holidays unless they have special exemption).

A nice walk in the wooded hills surrounding the lake followed by a pleasant meal with a cold beer and (after a suitable pause - the beers are served in 30cl portions here unless you 'go large') another very nice drive home again chasing the sunset which dipped under the horizon about 20 minutes before I put the car to bed again.

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So how was your Bank Holiday driving experience?
 
Isn't it just great to have empty roads? Sundays are pretty much like that here - all the good people are in church whilst the rest of us heathens blast around the empty roads :D
 
we had a fair bit of traffic on the a56 (m56 was quite busy too. one chap didnt appreciate me joining the queue infront of him (apart from the fact that there was plenty of space and at the time i pulled out, he was stationary about 20metres away.

on discovering his keenness to be in the queue i set about spending the next 3 miles letting everyone and everything out infront of me from side turnings just to watch the steam come out of his ears!
 
Just got back from bowling, roads were clear, only waiting time as at the lights.
 
2blue4u said:
You didn't spot a convoy of Lancasters, then?
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There's a Big poster of a Lancaster flying over the exploding dam made from a Movie Still at one end of the Dam advertising showings of the film at a nearby restaurant - you'd be surprised how 'big' WW2 is with the current generation here now...

They've finally got over apologising for it all (as it was their grandparents or beyond that were 'responsible', if that's the right word)...now they just want to know what went on and I get a sense of pride in the Military achievements, if not the 'other stuff' that went on...plus a sense of anger at the previous generation that allowed it to happen - Neo-Nazis, while visible here as everywhere get very short shrift.

Though some attitudes are harder to erase: when discussing Afghanistan (Germany has increased its Troop levels there) the conversation in the pub eventually got round to how to deal with the problem of Muslim extremism...
Someone inevitably said that the only sure-fire method was to kill all Muslims - which went down surprisingly well...
What? All of them? I asked: Men, Women, children?
Oh yes, it's the only way...
I pointed out that they'd tried that one already and look at Israel now and the problems that's caused..
"Ah yes," said one guy. "But we know what we did wrong now, we'll be better next time..." Howls of laughter from the whole pub...

Don't expect modern Germans to feel sorry about the Final Solution: they're more p1ssed-off that those guys botched the job...
 
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