V&B Country

An early start for the day. First was to pick our 2 weeks rental car at Avis. We were given a Volvo V70 D5 - quite a big and solid estate car with large boot space - easy to carry things around. The amazing thing is that the car is brand new. We are the first user with the car mileage still at 115 km. The mileage will definitely changed in the next two weeks. Estate car is quite useful to own here but apparently is something that people hate in our region. We always associate it as a hideous family car, and most people prefer a saloon or a 4WD.

Anyway we went to Mettlach in Germany close to Luxembourg for a day trip. We have never been here whereas most of the people we know always make a trip or so now and then. This is where Villeroy and Boch factory outlet is located. When I set the GPS, the distance to the destination was 444 km and supposed to take about 4 hrs and 15 minutes to reach. The rain was a bit heavy on the way and it took a bit longer.

The scenery over there is great. Mettlach is a small German town on the bank of river Moselle. This river provides some of the most scenic sights in Germany as the river winds it ways up north before linking to River Rhine.

We used a different and slightly longer route to get back home as we wanted to stopover in Aachen. But the nice thing is we could used the autobahn. The autobahn or the fabulous German motorway can be quite a scary place. Just a few days ago near Hanover, there was a massive accident involving a mass pile-up of 259 cars on the motorway during a busy and rainy day. But the autobahn between Mettlach and Aachen is less busy and is not a flat motorway and so is easier to see much further down the road. There is no speed limit on the autobahn. Most people drive at 150-160 km/hr. Even as we were doing 160 km/hr on cruise control, there were all sort of fancy and fast cars easily whizzing by and more likely doing 200km/hr. Finally arrived home around 10pm. The car's mileage display has already read 1000 km on its first day!