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English to Chinese: F1-Toy
Source text - English CITY BREAKER
The new Toyota Yaris is an urban dweller that also loves the long haul, as we found on our Euro tour
WORDS: PAUL FEARNLEY PHOTOGRAPHY: MARC WRIGHT
Lying at the hub of Germany¡¯s Rhine-Ruhr industrial region, Cologne boasts a welter of modern architecture. One of its newest headline buildings is the Arena, an impressive glass-and-steel 18,000-seater stadium completed in 1998.
It looks a picture (aka a photograph) lit up at night for an ice hockey match. Its car park is jam-packed though, and we have to wait until after the game is over to access exactly the right bay for ¡®framing¡¯ purposes. At this point we set to: lights are positioned to pick out our Satin Silver all-new Toyota Yaris; a Polaroid is taken to assess composition and light levels; film is installed in the back of the camera, and then... the stadium is plunged into darkness. The lights have been turned off, including the keynote 76-metre ¡®bow¡¯ that arches over its roof. All is black, except the air around us, which is blue, blue, blue. Fortunately, we still have three more days ¨C and three more countries ¨C remaining.
We pack up the kit into our Yaris ¨C a 1.4-litre D-4D diesel version ¨C and get ready to move on with our inter-city express mission. Earlier, we picked it up from Panasonic Toyota Racing¡¯s headquarters in the outskirts of Cologne. This evolution of Toyota¡¯s petite star is distinguished by its ergonomic, spacious layout: perfectly small for navigating cities, big enough to cover long distances in comfort.
So we set out for a slice of living proof, by going from the F1 factory to the pre-season event which will feature the TF106 challenger in Valenciennes, northern France, at Toyota¡¯s state-of-the-art Yaris factory. OK, it¡¯s only three hours¡¯ drive straight, but our task is to take three days, and on the way discover the sights and sounds of some of northern Europe¡¯s most popular destination cities. Let the Yaris revel in the urban environment, and then ¡®break out¡¯ into the countryside to reach the next city. And take pictures of the lot, except the Cologne Arena...
So, the Yaris is soon whipping down the A4 autobahn in the next morning¡¯s rush, past Herr Schumacher¡¯s kart track at Kerpen, occasionally surprising the headlights-ablaze, pretend Schumachers that abound. The 40 miles to Germany¡¯s westernmost city go quickly.
Aachen was guaranteed fame and fortune once Charlemagne had selected it as his retreat in 768 AD. When this human dynamo ¨C King of the Franks, King of the Lombards, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire ¨C wasn¡¯t putting down a revolt in Aquitaine, crossing the Alps to conquer Lombardy, slugging it out with the Saxons (18 battles in 30 years!), campaigning for Christianity in Moorish Spain or fending off the Slavic hordes, he was introducing administrative reforms and encouraging scholarship and literature.It was on his rare days off that he enjoyed relaxing in the hot sulphur springs of Aachen, his trusty sword Joyeuse no doubt wedged against the bathhouse¡¯s door. He liked the place so much that he built a palace, the chapel of which morphed into the cathedral. Consecrated in 805, it¡¯s the oldest in northern Europe, and hosted coronations of Holy Roman Emperors between 936 and 1531.
The current building is the result of more than a millennium¡¯s worth of extensions: the amazing, lofty and light Gothic choir hall ¨C known locally as the ¡®glass house¡¯ ¨C and its attendant ring of chapels was consecrated in 1414; the Baroque dome high above the original chapel was completed in 1669; and the 74-metre western tower-with-spire was topped-out in 1884. It makes for a terrific photo opportunity.
Despite being at the axis of the bustling old town, we happen across a large but empty square just to the north, park up (possibly illegally) and do our thing. Naturally, a bright orange truck manoeuvres into shot at precisely the wrong moment but, with a slight adjustment, we complete our task ¨C just as it starts to rain.
Splashing further west towards Brussels, over that washboard surface Belgian autoroutes seem to have claimed for themselves, loaded down with kit ¨C photographers do not travel light ¨C and under a steel grey sky, is not my idea of unabashed fun. But again the Yaris does its best to raise our spirits. It drives ¡®bigger¡¯ than its size, feels securely planted, stops with surefooted accuracy and surrounds you with airbags and various other safety features. Its stereo isn¡¯t too dusty either. We crank it up and roll into Belgium¡¯s capital on the humongous wave of riffs that is Led Zep II.
During my three previous visits, admittedly hurried ones, I hadn¡¯t been impressed by Brussels. But my attitude softens when I stumble across Grand Place. Quite how this chocolate box confection of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque one-upmanship had eluded me is staggering. This rectangular square, formed by the town hall, the King¡¯s House and various guildhalls, is breathtaking.
We, however, had already shot our Brussels photographic bolt at the Atomium. Designed by architect Alexandre Waterkeyn and built in Heysel Park for Expo ¡¯58, this mind-boggling structure was supposed to only last six months. However, the locals fell in love with it, deemed it a symbol of their modernity and insisted that it remain.
It¡¯s just undergone a complete refurbishment, and its nine 18-metre-diameter spheres have had their faded aluminium cladding replaced by shiny stainless steel. More than ever, it resembles a game of wildly distorted boules. It¡¯s actually meant to symbolise the unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times. And, no, that doesn¡¯t make much sense either. It probably contravenes numerous EU directives too, but as any cold and hungry photographer about to put another one ¡®in the can¡¯ will tell you, that only adds to the joy of the place.
But even the Atomium is not as photogenic as Bruges. This ¡®Venice of the North¡¯ went into decline when its access to the sea silted up during the 16th century, causing it to cede local trading supremacy to Antwerp. The upshot is that Bruges has remained a picture-postcard-perfect medieval walled city, complete with canals and cobbles. Less romantic than Venice, less knowing than Amsterdam, it strikes a delightful ¡®blue collar¡¯ balance between the two. If you haven¡¯t been to Bruges, go.
But be warned: it¡¯s the most frustraating (sic) place you¡¯ll ever drive around. After crossing most of its 80 bridges at least twice, we eventually find one with all the right attributes. The warren of one-way streets, however, defeats us during our search for the hotel. We set off on foot, and on arrival ask the receptionist how to get the Yaris to the hotel car park. His initial two marks on the map are encouragingly adjacent; his eventual route linking the two in pink highlighter is laughably complex.
If the evening is to be saved by a curry (I heartily recommend Bhavani on Simon Stevinplein) and several excellent local brews, more shoe leather will have to be expended. We decide to drop the Yaris at a ¡®closer¡¯ public car park ¨C we locate it on our second circuit ¨C and lug our bags through the Markt, the square at the city¡¯s core.
It¡¯s still dark when we set off the next morning for Holland, an hour¡¯s drive north. Zeeland is the only part of that country south of the gaping Westerschelde estuary. It was a contested area from 1299 until the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and the creation of the Kingdom of The Netherlands. To glance at the map is to place it firmly in Belgium, but today nobody is kicking up a fuss that it¡¯s not. I don¡¯t blame them. Apparently, the resort of Cadzand-Bad is a mecca for sun- and surf-worshippers that more than quadruples its population at the height of the summer. In the depths of winter it¡¯s dull, dank and desolate. Leaden skies meld seamlessly with the leaden sea, a scene that¡¯s leavened only by the fluorescent orange bills of noisy nearby oystercatchers. We¡¯re on a beach, but I don¡¯t have to pretend when the snapper asks me to stick my hands in pockets and hunch my shoulders against the chill.
Back aboard the Yaris, neat rotary heater and blower switches turned to the max, we set off for France. It¡¯s true that traversing Belgium hardly ranks as the most arduous of cross-country drives ¨C and being flat and featureless, nor is it the most pleasing to the eye.
It¡¯s long enough, however, to further (mentally) warm to the Yaris. This supermini is definitely inter-city as well as intra-, and as we veer left into France I¡¯m happy to up the pace over some give-and-take roads: we¡¯re running out of time and light. Our last task had sounded easy: find a typical caf¨¦ tabac, drink a coffee, read a newspaper, take a photograph. As we hare around Nord-Pas de Calais, we happen across plenty, but there¡¯s always reason to think that a prettier one is just around the corner. It never is. It would have been easier to find a French-made Gauloise. This workmanlike area of northeast France doesn¡¯t do pretty-pretty.
Instead, we settle for a final sprint into Lille, where another one-way wrestle during an unfamiliar rush hour allows the Yaris to reconfirm its bob-and-weave credentials. I like it. Lille, too, proves far more arresting than I had been prepared for. We find the perfect blend of 19th century poise and 21st century noise in the main square, Place du General de Gaulle, and set up our final photo shoot with the Yaris under a statue of the goddess D¨¦esse, illuminated by a whirring ferris wheel.
Next morning, we make the short 40-minute blast to the huge Yaris factory on the outskirts at Valenciennes. Our new friend is home, back where it was made. Before it¡¯s F1 glitz time, we gaze at a huge, 500-metre-squared mass of parked Yaris cars. With these, you could ¡®weekend break¡¯ to every major city in the world.
Translation - Chinese 城市快船
在环游西欧的旅行中，我们发现新款丰田Yaris车非常适合那些喜爱长途驾驶的城市居民
撰文：PAUL FEARNLEY 摄影:MARC WRIGHT
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