I don't know why I'm asking this question, because I know what you guys will say, but you can say it anyway.
I have some tickets for the Bayreuth Festival in August. That's Bayreuth in Bavaria, not far from Nurnberg. The question is, how do I get there?
The normal sane way is to fly from Edinburgh to Stuttgart, and hire a car. It's a fairly quick trip, and I should get there by teatime. With a cruddy, left-hand-drive shopping-trolley-with-an-engine.
On the other hand, I could take the ferry from Rosyth to Zeebrugge, that's the CAR ferry, and set off down the autobahn. In the MkVI.
Disadvantages are....
- It's certainly no cheaper, could be more expensive.
- Cabin prices are ridiculous, so I'd be stuck with a "reclining seat" to sleep on. Before a 7-hour drive.
- The ferry doesn't dock till 2pm, which would mean getting to Bayreuth late evening - or else breaking the journey and eating up more of the holiday travelling.
- I'd have to consider breaking the journey on the way back, for fear of a bad delay causing me to miss the ferry.
On the other hand. MkVI, autobahn, mmmmmm....
I know the road reasonably well because I've driven it several times (took the Peugeot through the Chunnel when I lived in Sussex). I'd far rather have my own car than a hire car - I'm perfectly happy driving a right-hand-drive car on the continent.
Opinions? (I suppose this well get moved because it isn't an exclusively MkVI question, but like it says, "I live here".)
Rolfe.
