Vespa Road Trip South of France

Certainly 1991 was an interesting year: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee of the Swiss nuclear research centre CERN publishes the first website, thus launching the World Wide Web. Ötzi is found in the South Tyrolean Alps. The Warsaw Pact is dissolved, and, who doesn’t remember, the multi-party system is introduced in the Seychelles. The whole year is accompanied in Germany by the number one hit by the Scorpions, Wind of Change.

I myself had bought my first Vespa scooter a year earlier and decided in late summer that I would cut off my hair and become a scooterboy. The youth subculture from GB wasn’t as well-known as some American influences at the time but was gaining followers. The guys with their cut scooters, Domestos jeans, bomber jackets and bald heads with curls