I left Austria late, it must have been seven thirty on Monday morning. I meant to be on the road much earlier, but at some point when the magpies were starting to thieve, I fell asleep at the wheel of my computer. Thus, there was a mad rush to finish the JSBM newsletter and then it was straight on to the road. It is a long way from the Red Bull Ring to Paris and as the Germans are in the middle of a lengthy programme to replace the original autobahns, which have finally worn out after 90 odd years of service, it takes longer than Google tells you it does.
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