Tag: Germany
More Rossi Brotherhood, German Style
In 2009 I visited the famed Nordschleife, the German public racetrack, and posted about it here. Then in December last year I posted a little story about encountering a Valentino (Vale) Rossi fan in an unexpected place. A few months later I was pleased to receive an email from a German who had read both […]
Read Moreauf Wiedersehen
I’m sitting in the Frankfurt airport, in the same area as when I was waiting to go to Qatar, this time waiting for my flight to London and next weekend’s British GP at Donington Park. The announcer just called for the flight to Doha to board, and though I hope to go back to Qatar […]
Read MoreOld Habits Die Hard
Apparently I’m in what used to be East Germany. One of the veteran MotoGP photographers was telling me last night about the huge crowds they used to have here at the Sachsenring, until one year’s result had 300,000 fans singing the anthem of West Germany, which the powers that used to be did not find […]
Read MoreIch bin ein Frankfurter!
You know how that spiel before take off assumes there might be some adult on the plane who, by a strange series of coincidences, has never used a seatbelt before? Well, that guy was sitting right behind me. He was an elderly Coratian, as far as we could tell, because he spoke no common European […]
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