drei bier bitte.... The A8 Freunde Report
 

we are having a superb time over here guys.....
more to follow.....soon

;)
Keep us posted+++

ha ha ha ha ha ha
Having driven at speeds that would get an instant ban! Only slept 2.5 hours in the last 40! I am now drinking Vodka redbuls while stood amongst 20 8s. Photos to follow.
:)

lol OK we are all turning green now :D

and what may I ask is wrong with that? :( +++

Guys,

Having slept the sleep of a severly drunken man (God we drank some weird stuff last night!), we (me and Mike, we are close you know ;)) are now preparing for another day of fun and frolics.

What are we preparing for?

1. A superb breakfast
2. A drive around the lake to a castle, where we'll have some serious photo ops
3. A nice meal at said castle (I think that's what they said anyway)
4. A BBQ this evening, where no doubt there'll be more green and red stuff (no we're not drinking liquidised EBC pads!!!) to tickle our pallette!!! :D:D:D:D:D

Anyhoo, the welcome has been incredible from the A8-Freunde, we couldn't have asked for anything better.

The best bit??? There's more to come:D :D:D:D:D:D

We'll get some photo's up as soon as we can, I've got 196 just from yesterday to sort through!!! +++

and Direct from the front line.............
 

"We go out of the studio now to our fearless reporting team on the front-line right in the thick of the action. Over to you Conan".

"Thanks Des. Well as you can see we have had breakfast and mine consisted mainly of orange juice and a mouthful of something I ate and drank last night. Damn this heartburn!

We are here in the middle of the most amazing 8-fest. Our insipid reporting team of Tony (the camera), Darren (load carrying) and me CtL the (good looking hunky) reporter. Surrounded by 8 of all kinds our current favourite....
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c7...9/172a416b.jpg
The S8 with a V10. We get a ride in this later! :)

Highlights so far include, the 2 1/2 hours sleep in the first 40. Not being worried by seeing 140 on our speedometers for extended periods and the impromptu party last night after dinner illuminated by headlights, entertained by Mr Bose and lubricated by Ozo and Vodka from the boots of 2 8s.

See the slide show here.

More later.

Back to you in the studio des!"

Some nice motors there....

Pic 33 is a bit scary looking :)

And is that a blown '8 in Pic 51, or jsut some nice blue pipe?

Twin Turbo. Can Spin its wheels in first!

Looks like you're having a cracking time guys! :cheers: must try to make this one next year... +++

Is that a Reiger bodykit on the car in photos 48/49?

great to see you guys made it to a8 paradise in deutschland. thanks for the photos. nice to see also that there is a8 fanatics in the audi motherland. i wish i could be there also, maybe next year.
i guess chris got his engine fixed. is there other 6 speed manual's at the meeting.
we need a club drive in the country at the uk meet next year.
hope to see you all at audi driver in castle coombe. john

OMG, i wish i had gone! Looks like you guys had a blast!

BTW - i want this man's grille....stunning :D

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c7...9/00e881d7.jpg

Guys,

Full report coming soon, but all I can say is

"If Carlsberg made weekends...."

'Nuff said :D:D

Tired, but smiling, Tony

Hi there.

Now back home and it was really fantastic :)

For some nice pix you can click here:

http://www.a8-freunde.de/thread.php?threadid=5676

Hope that link works..

Greetings, Chris.

Hi Tony,

here's the pic you wanted me to post here.
But it's not big enough I think.

http://i28.tinypic.com/34exrur.jpg

:)

Chris.



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you were drinking Danish beer...?? :Confused:

Just climbed out of my bunk after a few well erned hours sleep! :)
I won't steal Tony's thunder (may edit it a bit to ensure as few people as possible know the truth"! +++ :D )
But a precis is in order me thinks; so here goes (I can't post photos due to navy IT security. :( )

13th - Leave pompey at 1800 meet up at Maidtone services at 2300.
Drive to Dover straight to ferry and first on!!! pritoty £12 worked.
Sail 0105, try sleep. Fail. Children and car alarms really are annoying.
0335 (local) arrive France, first off and drive like careful lunitics to get out of France.
0500 stop in Belgium. Some Sleep needed.
0600, no sleep achived as we parked in a truck stop and engines have been starting for the last 45 minutes. Go the greasy Louis' order eggs and bacon. Get an omlete each! :D
Aggre to drive for 2 hours and have another rest.
Drive for 3 hours and visit McDonalds to taste local culture.......
Drive for further 2 hours to discover SatNav Disk only has major roads of Europe and our destination is being driven around but not to! :(
Arrrive at god knows what time order first beer and big plate of food
Grab an hour of sleep.
1800 party starts with more beer. Party spills to car park with more beer, grean and red Ouzo and Vodka Redbulls. Party gets silly. :D+++++++++
2330 Awake for 38 of the last 40 hours. Vodka redbull is heroic but not enough.
Saturday 0815 Tony wakes the hotel using his arse!!!!! Shower Shave and down for communal brekfast.
Spend next 48 hours smiling insanely
Tony can do the next bit.
Sunday light out for Nurburgring
Watch some DTM. Audi win of course. Mercedees attend! :ROFL:
Drive like lunitics back to Calais 150Mph and still can't catch a BMW 540 AC Snitzel.
Maintain 100Mph + for far to long. Smile inanely.
Use geman national speed limit through Holland and miss it completely.
Use german national speed limit through Belgium. Not clever, theirs in 90Kph.
Get to ferry an hour ealier than planned Darren blags us onto early ferry and still get priority boarding; first on.
0130 arrive Dover, first off. Go our seperate ways.
Drive gingerly back to Portsmouth.
Go to bed as happy as a happy person from Happyville who had had a threesome with Jordan and her better looking sister, won the lottery and found a tenner.

Looking forward to altering the truth in Tony's report! :ROFL:

Class report!!
 

Sounds an absolute hoot, really must make the effort next year...! +++

My permission slip is currently under consideration for next year's event.

Here's a quick trailer from the DVD-report there will be :)

http://www.myvideo.de/watch/6818796/...r_Edersee_2009

Chris.



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Excellent video Chris :D
Hmmm methinks we need rolling video at next years UK meet +++

"amazing" is the only word i can think of that could describe what this weekend was like. just everything about it was spot on. the german people were so good to us and made us feel very welcome, the place we stayed was just perfect. i could spend hours just telling you all how good it was but all i can say is "put me down for next years meet cos i am definatly comming again" +++

I'm so happy, that everything went fine and you guys had some good days at the meeting :) It was very good to have had you here!!! +++ +++


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That video is excellent but only just starts to show how good the weekend was.

So, here's a taller pic:

http://i28.tinypic.com/2wdn7f8.jpg

Very impressive - looks like the UK will have to raise its bar ever so slightly to get ahead of our German friends;)

Looks like I may have to attend next year - depends on the rest of the family though as mine is still a young'ish one;)

For the Brit's - just wondering, including fuel, what was the cost in the end (only roughly as I know this kind of info is personal - she who must, might find out....)+++

Cheers

The hotel room with all u can eat breakfast was 50 Euros
Food was about 13 euros for lunch and 15 for dinner (I ate well +++ )
I used 4 tanks of LPG (70 Ltrs each @ 47Cents a Ltr for 2 and 59 Cents a Ltr for the other 2 (2 in Belgium and 2 in germany).
I also put a 100 Ltrs of 98 Octane petrol in @ 1.23 Euros a Ltr approx but I could have used LPG if I had planned my refueling better.

So by my reckoning the cost of a trip is approx £450. I spent a wee bit more because they had beer there. Very nice beer. Very nice indeed. :rolleyes:

You could reduce the cost of fuel by driving at 65Mph all the way there and back! No? Why's that then? :ROFL:

Don't have LPG so my costs would be quite a few sheckles more!:tuttut:

Not a bad cost all in tho' so thanks for the info+++

Yeah - yeah,

I can only affirm that.

He ate and drunk well :D

Good boy!

edit:
By the way, could you teach Tony how to go fast with an S8? :)
Didn't he ever have squeaking wheels?

No but at Audis in the Park other parts of him were squeaking. . . ahem :tuttut:

Some random photos
The drive....
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c7...9/009a5a24.jpg

hey guys,

it was a real fun weekwend with you. looking forward to your meeting next year +++

hello rené its good to hear from you. we had a very good weekend coming over to see you. still wish we was there. did not get a chance to have a drive at the nurburgring as it was dtm weekend but still hoping to come over shortly for a drive round the ring. if you all come over to our meet next year i hope you will enjoy it just as much as we did in germany.
darren+++

A wee bit of video
 

How to have a meeting of the Marque!

Just been shown these.

Here and Here and Here. Enjoy

Wunderbar! +++

very cool

This has really sold it to me, sounds like a lot of fun, by the way. I kicked a 540s butt in my S8!