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posted on April 5th, 2004 at 11:06 PM
Send me u2u...
in about a week or so, and I'll get onto it.
I lived in Germany for 7 years, and can find out all the info you need online. Should only take an hour or so, but as I said, get on my case about it
next week.
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Martin.
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Costs 6 Euro for Entry, or 15 for a family. They do a tour for 30 Euro, but I'm not sure about the language.
There's another automuseum in Wolfsburg too. They do tours of the VW factory, where they produce the Lupo, 3-Liter-Lupo, Golf, Golf Variant, Bora,
Bora Variant. Might be worth a visit more just for the museum? The do a daily tour of the Factory in English at 12.45pm. You can call and speak to
them in English about your plans on +49 5361 400.
As for transport, hire a car. The region of Braunschweig is a couple of hours away from Berlin, and trains can be a pain in Germany (what with
terrorists trying to derail them etc.) Trains are also pretty expensive, and you'll be happier and more comfortable in a car (tho' the LHD change
will freak you out at first!). You can get a small hire car (Golf, Smart etc) pretty cheaply from Sixt, and will probaly be better off than with
public transport.
You'll get full directions from where your staying to where your going on here. You just need the street names and cities. Any probs, give us a
buzz.
CU!
Martin.
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[Edited on 5-4-2004 by vwombat]
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In Europe it's generally MUCH cheaper to hire a car from this end, so look into that. I ended up with a Opel Corsa (Barina) for over $150/day once...
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posted on April 6th, 2004 at 07:55 AM
Ive been to Germany twice over the years, and the only way to get around is by driving a hire car.... and much more fun getting lost etc etc
Yes make sure you book a hire car this end as if you arrive there at the airport there usually all gone or pre booked.
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posted on April 6th, 2004 at 09:18 AM
I went in 2001 with pmgbus.
we bought a '69 bay window campef from a vw show in Pommy land for 1000 quid, then took it over to the mainland on the ferry, drove through France
into Germany.
Drove through Stuttgart, Hockenheim, Ingoldstadt, Nurnburg,
Munich, Westfalen, Berlin, Wolfsburg, Hannover, Osnabruck, then through Belgium, Holland, france, then back to Pomgolia, and sold the camper at
another VW show for 600 quid.
so our transport and accomodation for the time we were over there only cost us 400 quid between us.
you can't hire a car for 100 pound a week.
Definately go to the Autostadt museum. an amazing place.
to see, do, and touch everything there, you'd probably want to go there two days.
The Dieselstrasse museum is amazing too. It's the original VW museum.
Make sure you have plenty of spending money though.
Most people seem normal, till you get to know them.
