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Ok, Germany is a worthy second place in the European Soccer Championship. Friends from the USA, Dino, Christine, ALexa and Brynn visited us and the Kids had a lot of fun. Dagmar and the kids finally started the Vacation season and drove to germany. I had to do some work and then take a plane and fly also to Stuttgart. I tried the Best Fly Lufthansa Ticket for 99 Euro. That is a roundtrip from Marseille to Stuttgart and back. But already 4 weeks ago Lufthansa called me, that the flight to Stuttgart has changed. Marseille-Dusseldorf-Stuttgart. Whatever. I was coming home. Even with a extra flight. Only 1 1/2 hours from Montpellier to Marseille. I was almost on time and arrived home in germany. We had a wonderful weekend, because Dagmars Midwife Business had 10th Anniversary and I participated once more at the Oldtime/Youngtimer Rallye SCHWOBACUP.  I made my Trabant ready on friday and Saturday and my family and I enjoyed every minute. Saturday Jonathan went to the Kindergarden Party and Fabian visited a friend.

                        

The 10th anniversary of Dagmars Midwife Business was nice success. Lots of people visited and also Kerstin, Dagmars sister was there with her new born Babygirl Juliane. On Sunday morning I took off with my Neighbour Willy and Fabian. We drove with the 26HP/19KW Trabant to the Rallye. Last year I finished 2nd in my class Buildyear 1976-1987. We were only four last year, so it was kind of lucky. Now we had 11 cars in our class til year 1988. Willy was very good in reading the Roadbook. Fabian made nice pictures and filmed. We were a happy team. At the end we finished 7th out of 11. That was not bad ith only 26HP. We drove to the Black Forrest and many times we could only use 1st or 2nd gear because uphill it was pretty tough for the Trabant. Downhill it was tough for me, because I had to hit the brakes hard and there are no powerbrakes. In the afternoon we also had rain. My first ride in the rain.

We had Fiat X 1/9, Golf GTI, Saab Turbo, Porsche 928S and so on in our group, it was not easy. But we were happy about being not last in the Trabant 🙂

Norbert (he initiated the Rallye) also took Jonathan in his 1973 Beetle RS for a short ride. Jonathan was totally happy 🙂

Today was the day. After such a nice weekend I had a hard time to leave my family. They will stay some weeks in germany until returning to France. I hear in the news, that Lufthansa was supposed to be on strike. Eurowings and Cityline were the ones on strike. They fly for LH. Hey, I chose LH, because I was tired of Air France being on strike many times before. The first time in several years that I chose Lufthansa and they want to be on strike. So I called the Hotline and spend some money there to hear, that my flight is on time. Also the Webpage shows my flight is on time. Around noon I checked again and suddenly my flight was cancelled. Great. Calling again the Hotline they offered me a long train trip or maybe a Air France flight to Marseille. Back to Air France. Wow, what a day. I was laughing. Almost knowing that I might spend another day with my family, Dagmar dropped me off at the airport to change my tickets. Suddenly there was a chance to get the earlier flight with Air France via Lyon to Marseille. So I checked in. At least I tried. Going with the new ticket to the Air France counter I waited in line. Then I was next and the lady told me, I have to use the electronic Ticket counter. There I had to select the Airline I chose. I had Air France, but could not select it and Skyteam/KLM. That could not find my ticket. So I went back to the counter and she said, you must selec Air France, use another machine. Thats what I did. It worked until it was time to print out my Ticket. Waiting 2 minutes a red message appeared: Due to a technical problem it is not  possible to print out the ticket, please go to the next counter…

Now the lady had to laugh also. Damn, am I having this bad touch again where everything goes wrong ??? nooo, but I was close

I finally got my tickets and with 30 minutes delay for each flight I arrive around 6 pm in Marseille. Luggage arrived and my car was still there. But unfortunately with a nother mark from another french driver not being able to park the car correct. It looks more like rubber from the bumper, but it is a mark. Oh I hate that. The ride itself was ok, a little trafficjam due to a big acident was all. After a littel more than 1 1/2 hours I arrived at the apartment.

Back in the second home. Hooray to the numerous airlines in this world that make a usually easy day a sometimes tough experience.

A bientot

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