This is gold.
It certainly is, Bender. A shame that not many stories and photos like that appear.
My family & I did almost an identical trip lasting 8 months in '56 in a Morris Minor. Europe was still devastated and there were many leveled sites in the cities. London still had a lot of vacant plots from the bombing.German cities were worse. Wheras now everyone in Europe seems to speak better English than we do, it was all gestures and phrase books back then. At one stage we met our next door neighbours from Mt.Maunganui in a remote pass in the Dolomites as they were driving around the world in a vintage Austin 7. Great trip. My maternal grandmother was climbing in the Swiss Alps when war was declared and had to make her way back to NZ. I still have her alpenstock. She was one of the 2 nurses in Waikato Hospital when it first opened.
As a VW nut I was pleased to see split window VW's.....unsure of why there is a Zephyr and Citroen L 15 in Germany.....occupation forces...? Even in the late 80's there were border controls within the EU, entering the UK was probably the most stringent.... we got stopped when our 2CV scraped the judder bar due to too much French beer..... Customs laughed....mainly at the idea of Kiwis going all the way to France and back in a day on a one pound " Sun" voucher just to get beer....still we had a nice lunch of snails and mussels in Boulogne...
