10-11 Feb 2018 - Fools’ Artic Circle Germany
Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2017 12:51 pm
Dear lovers of the (cold) night: We keep going!
Last year’s Berlin Arctic Circle has found a successor.
As you know from the London Arctic Circle/FRL, the idea to drive 110 miles top down in early February on the motorway is for complete fools only, so for the German version we decided to meet on Carnival weekend in the fools’ metropolis - the region around Düsseldorf (Helau!) and Cologne (Alaaf!).
So if you’re too bored to go to Stoneleigh on that weekend and live not too far from the Channel ferries, here’s the invitation.
20 rooms (double, 77 euros per night incl breakfast) have been pre-booked for the Saturday to Sunday night at
Hotel am Vogelsanger Weg, Vogelsanger Weg 36, 40470 Düsseldorf
Bookings are managed by us.
The rough plan looks like this:
- arrival at the hotel in Düsseldorf around lunchtime on Saturday, 10/02
- we have something in the planning stage for Saturday afternoon
- Saturday night around 10 pm start from Vogelsanger Weg clockwise along the motorways A44, A3, A4, A61, A52, then back again on the A44.
- midnight meeting in Markus’s garden (cars can be left there overnight)
- barbecue until 3 am-ish
- last night bus to the hotel leaves at 3.51 am
Düsseldorf is about 4 hours to drive from Dunkirk, so there’s two ways to get here in time, if you have to work on the Friday: Either (recommended) take a late boat on the Friday and stay overnight in Dunkirk (Campanile Loon Plage), or go to Dover in the evening, stay at the Premier Inn right at the Eastern Docks roundabout and take the 6am ferry in the morning.
To put the icing on the cake, you can also stay another night to watch the famous “Zoch” on Green Monday (parade with satirical floats, marching bands and thousands of fools) in Düsseldorf’s old town. There’s enough rooms at the hotel and we will surely find some things to do or visit on the Sunday. Real tough people could even take the train (S-Bahn Düsseldorf-Derendorf, 15 minutes from the Hotel) to Cologne …
Please just send me a PM or email, and I will put you on the list. Don’t forget to mention if you wish to stay one or two nights.
Last year’s Berlin Arctic Circle has found a successor.
As you know from the London Arctic Circle/FRL, the idea to drive 110 miles top down in early February on the motorway is for complete fools only, so for the German version we decided to meet on Carnival weekend in the fools’ metropolis - the region around Düsseldorf (Helau!) and Cologne (Alaaf!).
So if you’re too bored to go to Stoneleigh on that weekend and live not too far from the Channel ferries, here’s the invitation.
20 rooms (double, 77 euros per night incl breakfast) have been pre-booked for the Saturday to Sunday night at
Hotel am Vogelsanger Weg, Vogelsanger Weg 36, 40470 Düsseldorf
Bookings are managed by us.
The rough plan looks like this:
- arrival at the hotel in Düsseldorf around lunchtime on Saturday, 10/02
- we have something in the planning stage for Saturday afternoon
- Saturday night around 10 pm start from Vogelsanger Weg clockwise along the motorways A44, A3, A4, A61, A52, then back again on the A44.
- midnight meeting in Markus’s garden (cars can be left there overnight)
- barbecue until 3 am-ish
- last night bus to the hotel leaves at 3.51 am
Düsseldorf is about 4 hours to drive from Dunkirk, so there’s two ways to get here in time, if you have to work on the Friday: Either (recommended) take a late boat on the Friday and stay overnight in Dunkirk (Campanile Loon Plage), or go to Dover in the evening, stay at the Premier Inn right at the Eastern Docks roundabout and take the 6am ferry in the morning.
To put the icing on the cake, you can also stay another night to watch the famous “Zoch” on Green Monday (parade with satirical floats, marching bands and thousands of fools) in Düsseldorf’s old town. There’s enough rooms at the hotel and we will surely find some things to do or visit on the Sunday. Real tough people could even take the train (S-Bahn Düsseldorf-Derendorf, 15 minutes from the Hotel) to Cologne …
Please just send me a PM or email, and I will put you on the list. Don’t forget to mention if you wish to stay one or two nights.