This area was a collection of bars, clubs, hash cafes, porn shops with interesting window displays and lots of houses with models sitting in the window waiting for a friend.

The area was pretty seedy there was a collection of deros and scumbags and plenty of people offering you products as you walked by. coca cola must have been on special or something cos a lot of guys were offering us coke one guy even called me a heroin! most of them were rastafarin characters none of them gave any problem you just said no or kept walking and they tried the next person.

we came across a Spanish cafe bar and had beers and food then went walking trying out on the way back to the station we decided to do a lap of red light area, it was packed didn’t feel as sleazy as earlier and lots more to see There would have been hundreds of shop fronts with ladies, fat ones, thin ones, black ones, white ones, gorgeous ones, ugly ones, man-lady ones you name it. I recon you could of even got a goat, some even had price tags not cheap 150 to 200 euro seemed to be the going rate. There were heaps of bars, hash cafes, porn shops and cinemas all packed plus plenty of guys on the corners selling foil packs but area had a sort of fun and fairly safe (if you stayed alert) vibe much better than earlier in the day.

Wolfsburg is home to Autostadt which was basically a Volkswagen “Disney Epcot centre” The place was auto theme park with different pavilions for each of the VW brands with simulator rides, 360 degree projections, kiddie activities and cars. the centrepiece of the complex were 2 20 odd storey glass silos floating on water full of brand new cars. it was said one in 3 golfs sold in Germany are picked up by the customers there.

There were 11 little buses, which cost over 1million euro each and took visitors into the golf plant for a tour. they showed a lot of there welding and assembly process with robots doing just about everything. people were really only used in the 11 lane inspection lines. over 3000 cars leave the line each day.

The included breakfast was a cooked buffet at this hotel, we had some bratwurst meatballs scrambled eggs and I even had some nice cake.

Heading to Berlin as I type this, its only 2 hours from Dresden so we stopped in the city of Dresden to have a bit of a look around. There is a lot of big flash new buildings in the city mixed in with a few historic ones. This is an old East German are so a heap of development looks to have happened in recent years obviously to fill the streets with McDonalds and KFC stores

We walked about 1km to the subway and bought a all day pass for the transport network and headed into Zoo Station which is one of the main stations in the west side of the city. There is an amazing monument to World War II it is a church that has had the guts blown out of it left there as an errie skeleton of bad days in the past. They have built this modern cement and stained glass church around it- it is quite stunning.

Only final assemble is completed here for the VW premium level car the Phaeton. All the dirty work of welding the body together and painting is done up the road at towards Zickau and shipped to Dresden. To minimise impact to the city all the parts including the polished up bodies are delivered on specially built trams appropriately called car-go-trams on the cities tram network.

Inside the building there is a bar, a restaurant with grand piano, offices, a viewing area and of coarse the plant assembly line.

We finished off the night with a buffet, a few beers and bed at the “Fun Hotel”, where we were staying about 10 minutes out of Dresden,

The Skoda museum wasn’t bad it,had about 50 vehicles tracing the company’s history and a lot of engines on stands. There was a new showroom next door where you could buy or look at the new models which were very nice. They are a VW company and you can see the VW good looks, quality and influence in their products. They have a range of cars a big car not much smaller than a Falcon, probably built of a Passat called the Superb, and a range of smaller products.  Regular listeners to the now defunct highly rating 94.7 Pulse FM Motorshow will remember there’s plans a foot to bring Skoda back to Australia, and looking at the products it should do very well up against the likes of Passat, Mazda 6 and the Honda Accord.

We got to the Czech Republic border, all the cars with Czech or German number plates were passed thru but our box of shite was registered in France so we were stopped by this nice blonde border guard with a pistol on hip. She checked our passports and stamped them.. then there was a problem she kept pointing to the car.. A few hours earlier we saw a Hertz note saying what countries we were able to drive in (which contradicted the website) and thought for a moment we were not able to take the car in, but all it was was we needed to turn our lights on (in broad daylight).

Lunch was the next point of call so we called into the border service station and got a sandwich an drink, the girl forgot to charge us for most of it so there was a bit of confusion, but got sorted.

First stop for the day was Friedricshaven which is about 2 hours out of Munch. Here we visit the Zeppelin airship museum and have a walk around the town.

The town is set on lake Constanz which borders Switzerland and Germany. Its a fairly clear day so we can see the huge Swiss alp monoliths. After a bite to eat in a beergarten overlooking the lake we head off for our next 2 hours of driving.

The GPS we optioned to the car has been worth every cent it is taking us to the door of every hotel and attraction. There is no need to read crazy German street signs, just wait for the girl to say when to turn.