Bonnet locked, cable broken

[DavidCC]

Hi, I hope I Can get some info... the other day my release cable broke, but it's not broken in the cabin, it's broken up closer to the latch. And I've been completely unable to do anything about it.

I found lots of results googling, but none were specific to my car - 2006 A8 4.2

so none of the suggestions quite worked out:
- in the wheel well, I couldn't reach in to grab any cables or the little black box
- removing the belly pan, there's no room to reach up and release anything or grab the cable.

So I'm hoping that somebody here can maybe post a picture of their latch, so at least if I do find a way to reach up in there I can have a visual guide as to what I am probing for.

Or even better maybe somebody knows the trick to getting that thing open.

I think on the smaller cars there was room to reach under or around things and get at it?

thanks in advance!
-David