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These are the roadworks at Breidscheid bridge today. And the reason? An acoustic wall. We're not talking Pink Floyd here, we're talking about a big sound-absorbent barrier to protect the town of Adenau from the ceaseless howl of cars and bikes accelerating over Ex-Muehle and towards Lauda links.

Now, I don't know about you, but a cup of hot chocolate outside the Blaue Ecke on a Sunday morning just wouldn't be the same without the background noise of the Nurburgring Nordschleife touristenfahrten. Of course, I don't live in Adenau either, so I'm probably not allowed to comment!

I'm not even going to start talking about the senseless destruction of an aesthetic section of the track... Oh, I just did. Let's look at Breidscheid one last time, without a wall and in the middle of summer... it might be annoying to have barriers like this going up. But it would be even more annoying to have the track closed...