A fantastic Depeche Mode concert later, we found ourselves in the coastal town of Viareggio, where many of the yacht yards are located, including Benetti and Perini Navi. The city belongs to the Italian Riviera and expensive sports cars are something you see daily. In the evening, we got to experience a different kind of queue for an indoor venue and how you can get snubbed because of your appearance. However, this did not happen at the entrance, but at the entrance to the parking lot, where a man dressed in a suit stood and waved in or refused cars to enter. We were of course waved in and welcomed with a smile.

Since we were in the mecca of supercars, a few factory visits were of course booked (coming in the upcoming CS Home), including Lamborghini. During the visit, we parked a little nonchalantly outside the main entrance and it was not fully appreciated by everyone, a man in a black guard suit came up to us and made the comment -Nice car, wrong color, wrong district before he saw us move the Porsche.

After a couple of lovely days on the Italian west coast, it was time to head home and north. And the way home was of course via the Nürburgring, which is now the ring I prefer before a wedding ring. This would be my first ride on the Nordslingan with a Porsche and I had longed for this. When you're at the Nürburgring, it's easy to understand why Porsche is so incredibly overrepresented there. If you run out of brake pads, you can go into the next-door supermarket and buy a liter of milk and a couple of Porsche pads, because spare parts for Porsche are so common. 

It was the first time my friend was there and I should have reacted to the second batch of scrambled eggs at breakfast. We he just half a lap on the sometimes quite nasty Nordslingan with its hidden crests and sharp curves. When he told me to take it easy because otherwise he would throw up, I didn't take it too seriously, but it was only when his cheeks looked like a squirrel that had been collecting nuts for a whole day that I understood that it was serious. 2 seconds later he hung over a duck rail and let the whole breakfast come out again. After I was dropped off by Benny at Gröne Hölle, I got a couple of nice laps with the Turbo and one of them I traveled against a Nissan GTR (test coming in CS Hemma in the fall). Great fun and should be done by everyone who has the opportunity and should be mandatory if you owned a Porsche.

After this fantastic trip, I can easily state that I understand why you buy a Porsche 997 Turbo. You ride in style, you can pack it and, in an emergency, ride four. You can go faster than most cars, you get quality with high resale value, you can handle winter road conditions without problems because it is four-wheel drive, and last but certainly not least, on our whole trip which had very high average speeds at times and relatively heavily loaded car so we had an average consumption of petrol of 1.23 liters per mile! I can guarantee that no competitor with the points mentioned above can do that. I have understood!