Wednesday, September 8, 2010

France to Germany with a broken Muffler!




While driving along in Brittany about to cross the Seine river mouth we started hearing bad noises from under thethe cab and we sounded like a Mustang Camaro. Dad went under the the cab and discovered the Muffler and Exhaust pipe were falling off. So he tied it up with some clothes line and we carried on.
That was three weeks ago and since then we've been up the Loire valley and to Paris. While driving across North-Eastern france we started hearing the bad noises again under the cab. We stopped at a france passion very near the border of Germany. Us kids helped the Farmer's son milk the cows in our jandals.
It was lots of fun until a cow pooped and stuff spletted everywhere. We meet the rest of the farmer's family the next day while buying some of their cheese. We found a place to fix the muffler in Germany. We went around a special round-about that had three exits, one to Germany, one to Luxebourg and one back into France. We went round a couple of times. We went into Luxembourg and bought some Tax-free Diesel.  We drove into Germany past vineyards on steep hillsides and over bridges on the Moselle river. We went to the Garage in Germany's oldest town Triel. We read books while we got an assessment and sorted a replacement.  We have waited three days for a replacement from Italy and planning to go back tomorrow to fix in up.

2 comments:

Thomas Nieuwenhuis said...

CAROLINE-If you're reading this please check your email.

Thomas

Anonymous said...

The Muffler's main function is to reduce engine noise to an acceptable level. Engine noise is a jumbled collection of its fundamental firing frequencies, which range from about 100 to 400 hertz Mufflers

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