the time has come to say goodbye to my 14 year old Opel Corsa.

He died last Thursday nearby Erlangen on a heart attack caused by a cooler failure. I have got this small allegiant vehicle as a gift from my mother in 2001. Since then it has driven me more than 90.000 kilometres during the last 7 years.

Plenty good memories are strongly connected to this car. First to mention our trip from Saarland through whole Germany, Poland and all three Baltic states to Finland and there even further to Lapland, which Susanne and I did in 2003 - before Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined the European Union. Only these adventures would fill a book with hundreds of pages of interesting stories.

Furthermore this simple Corsa accompanied many holiday trips to Spain (mainly Barcelona), France (French Riviera/Côte d’Azur, Bretagne and Charente-Maritime), Netherlands (Amsterdam, Maastricht) and other European countries. Not to forget many weekend city breaks within Germany and the Saar-Lor-Lux region.

Farewell my good old car - I will miss you!