It travels via Spain at 30 kilometers per hour and even so it’s virtually unattainable to search out it. He stops the place he needs, or the place he can, and whoever crosses his path doesn’t overlook it. This is Hubert Wirth, a 74-year-old German retiree who left his nation greater than two months in the past and who’s now touring Spain on a tractor.
Wherever he goes, everyone seems to be stunned. “It’s a really uncommon car,” says Hubert, who additionally has a barrel-shaped caravan hooked up to his tractor. Before it was a transportable sauna, however this retired carpenter was in control of changing it right into a small home on wheels, the place it would not even lack cable tv.
“I left Germany on October 31,” Hubert tells us. He crossed France and when he arrived in Spain he headed for Santiago de Compostela. From there he went to Lisbon and went down via Portugal in the direction of Andalusia the place he has visited cities like Seville, Cádiz, Almería or Cartagena the place he has simply camped. “The Spanish are nice folks, together with the police,” Hubert jokes.
Hubert in his caravan throughout his keep in Mojácar.Stefan Haag
It will not be the primary time that Hubert has made such a visit. In 2018 he went from Germany to Russia together with his caravan tractor to attend the World Cup. Hundreds of media from everywhere in the planet then lined a visit that took 4 weeks to finish. At that point he used a Lanz Bulldog, a 1936 tractor.
tractor change
In 2016 he needed to change tractors. Now he has a Massey Ferguson 273, an American-made agricultural car from the 80s with simply over 60 horsepower. It consumes about 20 liters each 100 kilometers. “Why am I going by tractor?”, the query doesn’t catch Hubert once more, “the slowness, at 30 kilometers per hour, and not using a freeway, permits me to see great rural roads in addition to their cities and other people.”
Tomorrow he’ll go on his approach. From Cartagena, he hopes to go as much as Barcelona after which go to Touluse and Lyon, already in France. In a number of weeks he could have returned to Germany and his journey could have ended, a visit the place time and haste haven’t accompanied him.