after test driving the french A roads, we found ourselves approaching stuttgart at pace on the autobahn, however a van blocked our line of sight at a vital four lane junction and i found myself brotherless and mapless.

now was the time to fall back on our pre-arranged 'what happens if we become separated drill', but that would prove to be hard as we didn't have one. after endless circling dual carriageways (nowhere to pull over, no-one to ask directions and no recognisable signs to follow) i finally found a taxi and convinced him to drive to a hostel with me behind. two hours after our separation, i found jag checking into the same hostel at the same time having done the same thing. in a city the size of stuttgart, unbelievable. he beat me by three minutes!