Technology these days allows us to do things that people in 1943 would have thought science fiction. We can watch live sport on TV from anywhere in the world, We can see young boys being saved from a certain death in flooded Thai caves - live on Facebook. We can send and receive money from banks all over the world without entering a real building. In 1943 a new invention was instrumental in destroying German hydro-electric dams that had been identified as import...

Our ride today was only about 200km but we had some very important business to do before we reached our accommodation - we needed to purchase tickets to the MotoGP at the Sachsenring! We are staying in a town called Neukirchen, about 30km from the track in a lovely hotel called Zum Anger. Buying the MotoGP tickets turned out to be a bit of an adventure. About 100km into our ride it started to rain and was still drizzling when we got to the track. We found the t...