10cr the shed and all that PART 4 the last bit

We stopped for a lunch break in a lay on route back to the Motorway the weather was brilliant the car running fine all was good with the world until we got onto the Motorway section -traffic- lots of- we were get very hot and sweaty and gone through most of our drinking water supply (think we did about 4 liters just in that jam!) so we pulled off into the rammed services and watch fat Germans que for the toilets from the shade of a tree whilst waiting for the traffic to die down ,we were wondering where in Germany we were meant to be staying that night as the details had been left back in Blighty- we had the town name but it didn't mach anything in the Atlas.
  Homer being Homer had struck up a conversation with a German lady with an overheating dog which  he proceeded to give the remainder of my drinking water to while explaining to the owner that we were stupid Englishmen abroad- on hearing this she translated our spelling of the Hotel location and gave us directions -her parents lived near the town  -nice one
The traffic calmed down a bit so we set off thanking our new German friend -all though I secretly hoped the dog pissed itself on her back seat after drinking all my water
It was about now that I noticed a slight "blow" from the exhaust and some fumes that wasn't Homers arse -but it was a case of its running  so keep going which we did (now on a mountain pass)  flat out past a sodding dutch camper van  into the clutches of an Austrian policeman standing  at the end of the straight waiting  to fine me 70 euros for speeding  -worse thing about it all was the sodding camper van got in front of us.
  We got back onto the fast main road then the dual  carriageway way intent on not letting the incident ruin a great day, we found the town and Hotel ,managed to hook up to an internet hot spot release some funds into Homers sort of working petrol account! borrow 20 odd euros, got some food and beer in us and meet up with 12 other crews staying at the Hotel which was a great surprise ,then the best bit happened!