MOVING/ ROADTRIP to a new COUNTRY 🧳 📦 🚗 Part 2 from 11~ MAINLAND EUROPE 🇫🇷

Hi all 👋🏻

we woke up to this view

Today I want to share with you PART 2 from 11 , our adventure to our new home.

The 11 parts will be about our move driving ourselves to a new COUNTRY 😊 some parts will include some subtle hints, via text or photo 😅😉 so pay attention and see if you can guess where we are heading for!

If you missed the update. I am moving to a new country (again) via a longgggg road trip 🚗🚗🚗🚗 from almost 1 MONTH! 😉😎
Missed part 1, have a look here: The ferry crossing ⛴️🌊 part 1

With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk challenge and Make me Smile challenge. That are hosted by @tattoodjay and @elizacheng every week on Wednesday.

‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in!… the community is run by @tattoodjay.
Look at his last #Wednesdaywalk post.
It will tell you also the rules of joining at the Wednesday walk posts 😁 come join us! It is fun!

Are you ready to come along and find out everything from this exciting and epic adventure?
To find out where I “might” be traveling to…

A few more details first 😎

Today’s selection will be of 58 photographs.
Date: 29 January 2024
The Photographs in this post are all taken with my iPhone by me 📱🤓 and a few by hubby… when I was driving 🚗 we do share each journey/ part, as the trip is toooo long for just one person to drive 😁

LETS START NOW, ARE YOU COMING ALONG!

As I did in part 1 to know how many kilometres we will drive in total. I take again a photo from the dashboard and will do so every part of the journey.
We start today at : 126.899 km

Our journey starts today after a walk around in Saint Hymer and will drive further into France 🇫🇷 our route:

After we wake up we have breakfast in this cute and cosy CHAMBRES D’HÔTES where we stayed for 1 night.

So French 🥰 there were 2 tables for guests. They have 2 rooms.

I take a few photos from the surroundings while wandering outside for a little while to stretch the legs hehehe.
The path we drove our car on to the parking spot. It is very rural here as you can see. 😊

Let’s walk a bit further and we see the entrance to the CHAMBRES D’HÔTES. What means we got a room plus breakfast.

It’s a large farmhouse… so beautiful, don’t you think?

We couldn’t see much last evening as it was already dark when we arrived…

Look at the cool architecture. I like it 😎

But… we have to go on our journey now.
I hop behind the steering wheel for the first half.
So the next photos are from hubby 😁

This old building was fascinating as we drove by. Look at the wooden beams in the walls 🤓 they go back hundreds of years.

We drive through little villages.

And forests through the French country side 🇫🇷🌳🌲

Some cool buildings along the road too.

Driving along the river the SEINE on the left.

Going down and up the hills along this road.

Before we left I found half way our journey a cute restaurant where we will stop, eat something and swap drivers… here we drove into this village 😊

After our meal I take these few photos of the information sign in town. It’s 13:26h

And about 9 degrees Celsius.

We swapped drivers so hubby is driving now and I can take many photos again 😁😉
Do you see what I see?

Blue lamp posts. It was cool to see 💙💙💙💙 they stand out so much.

Now we are heading for a large city: ROUEN
If you look closely you see a large bridge over the river SEINE.

It seems our route is going under the city… through a tunnel 😎

Almost…

And now we are in the tunnel, it was a very long tunnel.

Next we are back on the countryside of France.

Following road signs and passing by many road works 🚧🚧🚧

Where are we heading for? 😎

The road seems so long… in the distance we see valleys and hills.

I capture a valley besides us. Beautiful views.

More signs to follow 😎

My favourite photo of the day next to the first one (thumbnail) 🥰
The windmills…

Along the road we are on now we find many colourful bridges. On the side there are colourful tiles that show something from the surroundings. Towns, monuments etc.

It brightens up the journey… I capture a few for you 😊

Cute!

The next one…

… I see a windmill 😎

The fields are vast… the landscape is flat now.

Passing by a few more villages.

A nice church ⛪️

Going down into the valleys again 🚗🚗🚗 vroom vroom…

We see trucks coming up the hill very slow…. They are heavy.

More villages… it is so typical French.

Following some more road signs now. We are off the beaten path.

Seeing the sign we need to go off the road towards the little village we will be staying for the night.

Exit to PIERREMONT🪧

I see it in the distance 😊

Ok ok… another favourite photo of the day hihihi 😁
The view is just perfect!
What do you think?

After we reach the destination, before we switch off the car… I capture the km again.

So let’s look at how far we have driven in this part.

The meter says : 127.160 km

Means we have driven 261 km along the road🚗…
Adding the first total we get : 1,401 km in 3 days.
Nice 😎😉

Let me show you the accommodation for the night:

Another old farmhouse. The courtyard is so cute 🥰

We parked off the street under the roof of the barn.

View to the right.

View to the left, in the trees there are many bird feeders. The birds did visit when we were inside.

Let’s walk to the barn to show you all the little cute rustic details:

Looks like this is a gathering place for dinners in the warmer months and maybe a painting workshop here and there 😊

As we enter the accommodation on the side. I notice the handmade ceramic tiles.
Remember when I was tiling at my in-laws last year?
Some of the handmade tiles had also animal paws 🐾 in them.
When the tiles are drying outside… they happen occasionally when animals walk over them 🥰 it gives the tile floors so much extras 😎 these tiles are easy to put down, the ones I put down were hexagon. With all different sizes and thicknesses… it was a challenge. Hahaha I did post about it last year 😁

Little sitting nook.

Dining table… I love the paintings around.

Kitchen area, we can cook 😊

One of the upstairs bedrooms. It was all much bigger than we thought.

Many cute details like the dried lavender 💜

We had a good rest here and wished we could have stayed longer… but… we have to keep going 😉

Hope you enjoyed coming along for this part and are curious to see what will happen in part 3 😁

Join me again… 👋🏻😊

… and that’s all for today’s post my friends.
Join me next time for more #updates, #adventures, #stories and #photographs 😎👋🏻
Even my own #artworks, once in a while, will come by” 🎨
Thank you so much for looking, and reading.

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Have a great day all 😎
Grtz Jackie

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