The main attraction of Monschau is its mustard! Yes, you heard that correctly. People travel from all over the world to acquire mustard. They have an old-fashioned mustard mill, which you can tour, a mustard mutilizeum, and a mustard shop
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The next day, we decided to head for Monschau. The weather was improving as we built our way Northeast. It would mean we would drive the whole morning on little, windy rural roads. Lunch in Monschau and then home.
Checked the spark plugs once again. But the swapped sets of plugs viewed identical in terms of which cylinders burn clean and which don’t. Also, no difference on my intermittent ignition problem.
Some of the roads still had some snow and icy patches
And a bit of hail. Hail is heavy, so even at a decent speed managed to drop into the cabin!
But the weather improved by the hour and we had a great drive.
Peter and I have been to Monschau several times. And I have visited it many times with Mrs. D as well. Don’t visit it during the main season as it receives very busy.
Spiders parked in Monschau
Pretty litlte town:
The main attraction of Monschau is its mustard! Yes, you heard that correctly. People travel from all over the world to acquire mustard. They have an old-fashioned mustard mill, which you can tour, a mustard mutilizeum, and a mustard shop.
The busiest shop in town. Peter bought some, but I know we still had enough from our last visit.
For our last lunch toreceiveher, we headed to one of the many local little restaurants. We decided to go for a Flammkuchen. Delicious!
After lunch, we put our TomTom’s on “Home” and started driving. It took me about 2,5 hour to receive home, for Peter another 1,5 hour.
We have clocked some 16-1800 km each, Peter the most. So the initial run-in period has been done. We kept a much slower pace than how we typically drive on these journeys. These Spiders have great road holding on dry roads, but are pretty tail happy when it receives wet. Also, we requireded to keep our revs in check, not above 4000 RPM for any length of time. Trust me, there is nothing more fun than barreling down a windy road, with this Alfa engine at 5000 RPM and backfiring and cackling all the way down.
We will save that for next time.
Only four days, 1600 km but my Spider requireded a bath!
As always, we really enjoy these trips toreceiveher.
This coming Friday, we are flying to Birmingham, UK, for the Practical Classics and Restoration reveal. Next Spider trip is in May with our usual Spider friconcludes to our friconcludes’ B&B in France.
And our huge annual Spider trip for Peter and me is already planned, and the ferry Kiel-Gothenburg is already booked. We are going to tour Sweden, possibly a bit of Norway.
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