2026 Holiday Day 17

Rothenburg aub der Taber - Mulhouse

We started with stuff on a stick at the  Auto & Technik Museum Sinsheim, but only in the car park. It would take 6 hours we didn't have to do the place justice.

MIG23

Foreground: Hunting Percival P.66 Pembroke

Middle: Martin MGM-1 Matador, the first operational surface-to-surface cruise missile

Background: Concorde

Vertol (VFW) H-21C Shawnee

It's not all aircraft on a stick in the car park: U 17 German submarine, 1973.

Neuf-Brisach is a fortified town in Alsace. The town was intended to guard the border between France and the Holy Roman Empire and, subsequently, the German states. It was built after the Treaty of Ryswick in 1697 that resulted in France losing the town of Breisach, on the opposite bank of the Rhine. When that happened the french speaking population voted with their feet and moved to the new town designed by Vaubin.

Distance covered 417km

Cumulative total 3013km@ 56km/h