Day 4 – Maranello

Wow what a day, started off relatively early with a nice breakfast then headed out to check out some of the local Ferrari shops that were closed on Sunday. All the shops sell much the same stuff, lots of great models of cars, t-shirts, books etc could spend all day just browsing.

After that Gill thought she’d try and catch up on some sunbathing while I just hung around at the factory watching the cars go by, then I thought I go for another quick blast into the hills which was much fun.

The Galleria museum is part of the factory tour but I know tomorrow will be hectic as we’re heading to Monaco when the tour is finished so we wouldn’t have a lot of time to check out the museum, so I went today and spent a good 3 hours just taking everything in, taking lots of pictures (and getting very annoyed with the public who kept getting in my way) and a few bits of video for my movie highlight.

Dinner tonight was at the Cavallino restaurant, everyone who comes here has to eat there at least once, it was actually really nice, lots of Ferrari memorabilia everywhere and there must have been some legends who have eaten at those tables.

As we were leaving the hotel for dinner I thought I recognized someone getting out of a car, it was none other than Jake Humphrey, BBC F1 presenter, so I said hello and we had a little chat. It was very nice to meet him. Also now know that Fernando Alonso is in Maranello too as is Chris Harris from Evo and Martin Brundle. Maybe we’ll see them at some point tomorrow.

I’ll leave you for today with some pictures from the Galleria Ferrari.

Big day tomorrow, Tour day…..