Alps to the Ring tour - Day 5

 Day 5 - Stuttgart to Bad Kreuzach, 160 miles

A shorter day planned to fit in the Porsche museum and an AMG factory tour for the kids.

The AMG tour cannot be bought, you have to own an AMG to get it. The factory put up a Union Jack, gave them food and took them on a 90 minute personal tour (only the 2 of them) of the actual factory floor where the engines are hand -built. They even let them pack the makers plaque in a bag, for it to be attached at the Mercedes factory - pretty cool and unique experience. 

The Porsche museum was similarly impressive; a mere 6 euros (we somehow got an early bird ticket, so half price), a great cake and coffee to start:

...and up the escalator, to be met by the first car Ferdinand Porsche built in 1898 or so, and it was electric:

The history of how he grew up and actually founded the company was fascinating. 

One of the earliest 911s, chassis no. 57 - it was found in a barn in 2014 and restored:-

The concept Boxster, first shown in 1993 - wish they'd kept the interior:

Some of the 30,000 trophies Porsche has won in racing:

The Italian Porsche club had reserved the front of the museum,  so we couldn't get a picture there:

We met the kids for lunch and then had a rather dreary 50 miles of industrial Germany to get through. It got so dull, they split off and I rearranged the route to try avoid the dull A-roads. For future reference,  use L and K roads only in Germany - the yellow numbered roads are like the A1; clogged with traffic.

The last 30 or 40 miles to our very snazzy (for us) hotel in Bad Kreusnach was much better; twisty,  tree-lined roads, mostly free of traffic.  The kids had an even better time, arriving an hour after us. Pizzas and a couple of beers before bed ended another great day.

Map of the route: