I just came back and the next few days look busy so I won’t be able to write a proper wrap-up. But I wanted to share at last my pictures and a few highlights that made this weekend very special. You can check out the photos here.
- The first beautiful sunny Friday morning when we drove on small twisty roads towards the ‘Berner Boden’ an elevated plain in the Alps. From there we crossed the ‘Klausenpass’ (6404 ft) and drove down to the entrance of the ‘St. Gotthard’ tunnel.
- Roberto & Sylvia and Sylvio and his girls showed some Italian hospitality when guiding us through the traffic on the Italian motorway and especially through Bologna inner city. There we enjoyed the old town quarter after finding a trusty garage to park our MINIs in.
- A truly great event at Santa Monica Race Track, meeting a lot of people form all over the world and making new friends.
- Lunch in Rimini on Saturday at ‘Osteria del Porto’, Fresh home-made pasta and fish that has jumped from the Mediterranean straight into the oven.
- The drive back north on Sunday. We didn’t organise anything but a multi-national parade of MINIs self-emerged on the motorway until we had to drive off at Como.
Looking forward to the next MINI UNITED
Philip
[ MINI United Photos ] Philip Hubertus
<p>“WE WANT MORE PICS” is the chant all over motoring file, and can be heard all over the US as many of us did not get our pics in time to win the trip.
-alpinamike</p>
<p>PS. I want those GP Rims!!</p>
<p>Awesome pictures!! Thanks for sharing – what a great time you must have had..</p>
<p>Lucky dog…</p>
<p>Thanks Philip.</p>
<p>Looks like a great party. Any idea how many folks attended?</p>
<p>Photo log from MINI UNITED: Genius.</p>
<p>Thank you, Philip.</p>
<p>Your images are brilliant. On track and off, you pump new adrenaline (or petrol?) into the Mini/MINI mystique, legend, and phenomenon. Great spirit here.</p>
<p>Thanks for sharing. Keep on enjoying.</p>
<p>BTW, the GP strikes some very special poses for your lense. You reveal it to be quite unique and worth a deeper look or two.</p>
<p>Sorry guys, I think the traffic crashed my web server. I can only check later, so please be patient.</p>
<p>Cheers
Philip</p>
<p>The server is back online. Sorry for the inconvenience.</p>
<p>Philip</p>
<p>Looks like it was a blast!</p>