Have you meet Elliot?

Isn’t she cute?  Yes, she. We bought her last year.  I am in love.

Elliot has been in the workshop since December, waiting for the mechanical overhaul she badly needed before we can use her for long camping trips.  I was so impatient for summer and technical inspections! We finally picked her up a couple of weeks ago and got ready to do a camping trip at the Baltic Sea.  Where there is BEACH! IN GERMANY!!

We headed towards Usedom. Wolfgang noticed that she doesn’t seem to have much power, but we know that she has a bit more to do on the motor thingy thing before she is perfect. So we don’t worry too much. After and hour we stop at a camping shop to grab a few things and…well she isn’t happy.

Elliot’s front left tyre is so hot you could cook an egg on it.

The photo that would go here is Elliot up on a lift at the closest VW mechanics.  But I was too busy being sad to take it.

Of course the mechanic knows nothing about cars this old.  So we get her down from the lift and try to devise a plan. After an hour of road side deliberating and google research (same reason for no photo), we decide it is not worth the risk and turn back to Berlin.

So, we repack our clothes into another car, book a hotel and go anyway. Not quite the maiden voyage we were hoping for.  But there was a beach.  And sand sculptures with boobs. And Terracotta Warriors. And picnics. 

Just not an Elliot.