Mick, are you serious??  How did all this come about? Where was my invitation?  And more importantly who is crazy enough to lend you their car 

I am insanely jealous.

I hope my red mist doesnt take over... will be interesting..

Vin, yeah I just decided bugger it we might not ever get another chance so seemed like the right thing to do!  We are taking the train to Cologne, and I've booked a hire car from the train station and we are going to (try) drive to the Ring in one piece.. haha.

It is so expensive to do the drive, its 2 hours and about 350€ each, the whole day option was just too expensive, about 700€ EACH! could not do this as we would not have enough money to get home! but at least we are getting out there in a 3.0L with R type tyres on it. cost a bit more for those tyres too.. man everything costs over here!

But all good, we get 2 hours on the ring, which I reckon will tire us out enough. 

Mick, what on earth!? Where are you now and when are you back in Australia? We'll have to catch up on all this over a ride some time!