Don't really know when I left off.. what a journey.

But I believe it was from me taking off from London to Amsterdam.

Well we finally arrived some 400 miles later to Amsterdam, and lets just say it felt like we went from riches, to rags! Coming from England such a "proper" country to Amsterdam was like day and night.

Amsterdam prostitution is legal, smoking pot is legal, drinking beers on the streets is legal, and a local even told me that smoking crack will only cost you a 50euro fine. However, fighting on the streets can end you 10 months in jail. Its a hippy town what do you expect, they want to keep it peaceful place.

We spent about 3 nights there, lets just say 3 nights too long. Anyone who wants to visit Amsterdam 2 nights is enough, unless your life revolves around pot/beer/whores. Which I dabbled into a little of everything.. smoked some pot, drank the local Heinekin brew, and did some window shopping ;)

I obviously checked out the Red Light District, the girls range anywhere from some what attractive to just down right disgusting.. but to each their own.

We also checked out Lidesplain (don't think I'm spelling that correct) but its definitely a better area than the Red Light. More locals, more things to do than beer/pot/whores. We didn't find out about it till the night before we were gonna leave, so we did a little pub crawl with some tourists and locals, pretty fun.. definitely get your moneys worth on the alcohol. I'm glad we got to see that area, it left me with a little hope for the city of Amsterdamed

Oh and PS: if you ever visit that city, don't drive your $80k car there.. I mean I was shitting in my pants, I think I ended up on the train tracks and on on-coming traffic a few times by accident, the city is complete chaos!

Over London

Greetings and salutations,

So I've been here going on 3nights and to be quite honest, I'm over it. I guess since I come from LA I'm already overly exposed to large city life, and that is exactly what London is. It its way to crowded, its dirty, and expensive!!

Since most of my main events are done with (picking up my M3, Formula 1) today was a relaxing day. We paid 25pounds and did the whole tourist thing and got on a tour bus (The Big Bus) and toured most of the main attractions of London. Took some good video footage, that I'll be uploading later.

I got in touch with a good mate of mine from back in high school that now resides in London, we met up, did a little catch up then headed to a club in Piccadilly Circus.. hung out there for a couple hours got bored and hooked on the bus and headed back to the flat.

Anyways, tomorrow I'm going to try and make it to Stonehenge as my last tourist destination then back on the ferry to Amsterdam!

F1

F1 was was wicked!! took about 1.5hrs as I anticipated from London. There was an amazing air-show before the race and after. I've been to a few in L.A but this one definitely takes the cake. F1 being HUGE in europe they spend some good money to put on a good show! BMW didn't place first but did okay... not having the best of year. Anyways not much to blog about, but however; I did take some good video footage and pictures which I'll post later.

After F1 we got back to the flat, changed and headed to the town. We hit up piccadilly circus (soho) which looks and reminds me a lot of Time Square in NY. Lots of pubs, restaurants, clubs, cafe's. I went to a club called Yates which was recommended by the locals along with (Oxygen and Zoo club) nothing special, reminded me alot of the clubs in Tijuana. Smelly with all the dirty indian's, arabs, and blacks. Bar tender walking around trying to get people drunk by giving them shots, and the music was just horrorable.

Long story short, the night wasn't the best.. didn't know that the Underground closed at midnight so I ended up roaming the streets for an hour trying to find a bus that goes to Bayswater (where my flat is). Finally someone actually knew, I ended up taking the double decker bus about 3miles shy of my flat and had to walk the rest still pretty intoxicated... Roaming the streets of London at 3am was not the way I anticpated the night would end up.. But never the less, thats what makes a eurotrip, a eurotrip!

Cheers!

Long day..and Hello London!

So we left Nurburg this morning around noon and made our way towards Calais, France. Finally arrived about 4hours later (~300miles). Lots of construction and traffic in Germany!

We made it to the port of Calais and put my car on the Ferry. I pretty much slept the whole ferry ride to Dover, England. Ferry ride was about 1.5hrs so I caught up on some sleep..

After taking my car off the boat and entering England it was pretty crazy since they drive on the other side of the road. The most confusing part about it is the "turn-abouts" we don't have these in the US so they're pretty confusing, even the locals get confused.

We finally got to London and checked into our flat. The place is pretty small, guess thats london for you.

Anyways, I've got Formula 1 tomorrow in Silverstone, England about 1.5hrs north of London so I'll let you know how that goes once I get back!

Sorry..

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with my blog as promised... all I gotta say is internet/wifi in germany blows! Everyone charges to use it and its like $15 US...

I'll do my best to keep you guys posted. But as for today I am in Nurburg Germany. Home of the world famous Nurburg Ring which is the world's biggest racetrack (17mi.) The whole point of coming here was to be a tourist obviously but to take my new M3 on the track, except last night we got cought in a mess of traffic and didn't make it on time :( So now we can only be spectators of the event that is going on right now.

Anyways, about to leave Nurburg, Germany getting ready to drive to Calais, France to take my car thru the English Chunnel to London for F1 tomorrow. Wish me luck on driving on the other side of the road!

Day of pickup..

6/16/09

After tossing and turning all night and going to bed hungry I couldn't sleep. I knew that they were going to start serving breakfast in the hotel at 7:30a.m so I woke up at 5:00a.m (jet lagged) and watched the clock until it stroke 7:30a.m and went to the lobby and grubbed!! I took down at least 2 plates of food, and it was delicious! One thing I always remembered about europe is the food and how tasty it is, something we don't get in the U.S. Everything is pretty much 100% organic out here. The tomato's are a beautiful red color, the oranges are actually ORANGE, and and apples are, actually green? Go figure..

Its pathetic that in the big, beautiful, U.S of A we have been brainwashed to thinking that its okay to pay for overpriced food that in-turn isn't even actually food. Just food that is put in a blender and they slap a label on it and call it a sausage. And we wonder why we have such a high rate of cancer, diabetes and all sorts of illness. Bon Apiete, you are whatcha eat!

TO BE CONTINUED..

Day of arrival, and what a day it was..

6/15/09 

Well after a very long 10 hour flight to Munich, Germany, I finally arrive. I proceed to baggage claim to find out that they lost our luggage container. After an hour wait, they finally find our container. So I proceed outside to get a shuttle to my hotel, wait another hour, to find that one doesn't exist. At this point I am so mentally and physically exhausted that I say fuck it, and I end up having to take a taxi which costed about 50 euro.

The cab ride was about 25 minutes from the airport to the hotel. Along the ride I was glued to the window trying to take in all of the country side as we drove thru it. It was definitely something I've never experienced  nor seen before except on The History Channel about pre/and post WWII documentaries. So much greenery, and the history of Germany just almost overwhelms you are you drive thru it.  Everything looks very WWII still.. from the railroad tracks, to the signs, fire trucks, and I even saw what appeared to look like a WWII watch tower that was still standing. 

M3 is getting closer to to being completed -- can't wait!!!

Realtime, timeline of the production of my car as its being built in Munich, Germany.