So here we are again, another year and another ongoing thread of photos from what is always the biggest highlight of my calendar - our road trip to Austria for the Wörthersee Tour GTI-Treffen.
This year marked our tenth year of going, and I still get just as excited as I always did. I still find myself having quiet moments where I just stand in the middle of it all and try to absorb exactly where I am and what I am surrounded by.
For our 2014 trip we spent a little bit of time in Italy on the way, stopped at the Lamborghini factory which was fantastic - there will be a photo thread when I get time to sort them - and stopped at Monza for twenty minutes. An amazing place.
Wörthersee is definitely now an event of two halves over two weeks. The first week is all about the show cars, whichever wheel manufacturer is currently in fashion, the car forum/club mini-meets, and watching the street racing before the Police arrive en masse for the main event. It's centred around the Campingplatz Arneitz at Faak-Am-See, which is a short drive from Reifnitz, but drive up to the Pyramidenkogel, Klagenfurt, Velden or anywhere else in the area and you'll find pockets of cars all parked up. It goes quiet for a few days as the "scene" guys drive home and the masses begin to arrive. Week two is based around Reifnitz where the official manufacturer stands and the trade areas open, when VW unveil their concept cars, the beer, and the partying.
They are both awesome to experience, I couldn't ever imagine doing one week without the other now. I'm lucky I don't have to choose!
So we took 15,000 photos... Not too shabby. As always it's a mammoth task to process them all so this thread will be around for a while...
We saw some absolutely belting cars. Soooooooo many gorgeous Mk1 Golfs. Sooooooooo much achingly cool new stuff. Soooooooo many rarities. I'll try to post a mix of them all.
I'd best get started eh? I'll go in chronological order from when we first arrived. Some of them are of oncoming traffic snapped at 50mph. Some are hurriedly snapped out of a window as we drove past a car park on the way to somewhere else. Some of them were taken when we were quite drunk. Very drunk. I actually don't know how they didn't come out as blurred as my eyesight was at the time. All of them make me smile.
This year marked our tenth year of going, and I still get just as excited as I always did. I still find myself having quiet moments where I just stand in the middle of it all and try to absorb exactly where I am and what I am surrounded by.
For our 2014 trip we spent a little bit of time in Italy on the way, stopped at the Lamborghini factory which was fantastic - there will be a photo thread when I get time to sort them - and stopped at Monza for twenty minutes. An amazing place.
Wörthersee is definitely now an event of two halves over two weeks. The first week is all about the show cars, whichever wheel manufacturer is currently in fashion, the car forum/club mini-meets, and watching the street racing before the Police arrive en masse for the main event. It's centred around the Campingplatz Arneitz at Faak-Am-See, which is a short drive from Reifnitz, but drive up to the Pyramidenkogel, Klagenfurt, Velden or anywhere else in the area and you'll find pockets of cars all parked up. It goes quiet for a few days as the "scene" guys drive home and the masses begin to arrive. Week two is based around Reifnitz where the official manufacturer stands and the trade areas open, when VW unveil their concept cars, the beer, and the partying.
They are both awesome to experience, I couldn't ever imagine doing one week without the other now. I'm lucky I don't have to choose!
So we took 15,000 photos... Not too shabby. As always it's a mammoth task to process them all so this thread will be around for a while...
We saw some absolutely belting cars. Soooooooo many gorgeous Mk1 Golfs. Sooooooooo much achingly cool new stuff. Soooooooo many rarities. I'll try to post a mix of them all.
I'd best get started eh? I'll go in chronological order from when we first arrived. Some of them are of oncoming traffic snapped at 50mph. Some are hurriedly snapped out of a window as we drove past a car park on the way to somewhere else. Some of them were taken when we were quite drunk. Very drunk. I actually don't know how they didn't come out as blurred as my eyesight was at the time. All of them make me smile.
