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Day 4: Koblenz to Weimar, 17 June 2022
Museum Automobile Welt Eisenach
For Your Eyes Only? Phil and Laurette Macwhirter, 1982 Citroën 2CV
something of a time capsule. Tracing its origins back to
1696, the hotel has an impressive history which includes
time as a Red Army staff college and a teacher training
institute whilst in the old East Germany. Now it’s stuffed
full of impeccably tasteful furniture and artworks and,
from what we saw tonight as we dined on the terrace, it’s
got a pretty good kitchen as well.
We were expecting David and Jo Roberts to rejoin us this
evening but, fate has dealt them another blow and they’re
currently still somewhere west of us, with an old Chrysler
to deal with. More follows!
www.rallytheglobe.com
Text & photos: gerardbrown.co.uk
Ean Lewin and Alison Lewin, 1973 Ford Escort Mexico
Design: K-Design
The pace dropped a little once we’d left the rusting hulks
in the goods yard and began the first of two Regularities
around Kircheim and Mundershausen. A Passage Control
outside of the Auktionhaus Hess kept everyone on the
right road, along which there was plenty to see as we rolled
effortlessly through well tended farmland, short stretches
of forest and picture postcard villages.
As the day neared its end though, there was a slight change
to the usual way of things, with the MTC situated, not in the
hotel lobby, but in the Museum Automobile Welt Eisenach
(AWE). A former motor vehicle manufacturing factory just
inside the old East German border, the museum pays tribute
to decades of German automobile manufacturing, with an
emphasis on those models which were actually built on the
site, such as Wartburg, EMW and IFA.
Bringing the day’s timing to an end here gave the crews
an opportunity to look around, enjoy exhibits - and to take
on a little refreshment. 85km of the very best German
Autobahn then delivered the rally to the night halt in the
most excellent Hotel Elephant in Weimar where, much
like the museum we’d just left, we found ourselves in