Hi all ๐๐ป
Letโs update you on PART 4 from 11 today, our adventure to our new home ๐ก and country ๐บ๏ธ
These 11 parts will be about our move โdrivingโ ourselves to our new COUNTRY ๐ of residence. Some parts will include some subtle hints, via text or photo ๐ ๐ so pay attention and see if you can guess where we are heading for!
If you missed part 1, have a look here: The ferry crossing โด๏ธ๐ part 1, Ireland to France
For part 2, have a look here: Mainland Europe ~ France ๐ซ๐ท part 2
For part 3, have a look here: Part 3, France, Belgium ~ MAINLAND EUROPE ๐บ๏ธ
Are you ready to come along again and find out everything from this epic adventure?
Todayโs selection will be of 59 photographs.
Date: 1 February 2024
The Photographs in this post are all taken with my iPhone by me ๐ฑ๐ค
LETS START NOW!
As I did in the last 3 parts 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 : 127.599 km
Itโs a bit more than with what we ended in our part 3. I have been visiting friends and family in The Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ for a few days and will not include those kmโs driven in our grand total ๐
We saw in the Netherlands windmills, cathedrals and interesting buildings, while taking a break fromโฆ driving. Are we really? ๐๐ we are still driving to friends and familyโฆ lol
Our journey start today in The Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ and we will drive further along our route.
Where do we go nextโฆ? my detour will go onto our original route ๐บ๏ธ further now.
The morning starts hazy and I see a church in the distance.
Driving through villages in The Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ we see more windmills ๐
I had to post some letters on route at a post office ๐ค โ๏ธ๐ฎ so we stopped for a short time. I walked past a flower shop and couldnโt go by without taking some photos of the spring flowers ๐ท
Beautiful ๐ I canโt buy some as the car is too full hahaha ๐คฃ
We drive further and I take some photos of interesting signs ๐ชง
Wild life can cross, so be careful ๐ itโs a cool sign I must say and new for me. They looked differently when I lived in Dutchyland.
For the southerners of the Netherlandsโฆ it is #CARNAVAL soon, so you see the carnival colours everywhere ๐๐๐คก do you see it?
Red, yellow and green โค๏ธ๐๐
Now we gone through some small villages we hit the motorway ๐ฃ๏ธ
Following the signs northbound ๐
For most of the day, the speed you can drive is limited to max 100km/h to provide better flow in this small country ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
I saw this interesting art work next to a bridge ๐
Going off route again for 10 minutes to drop something off at a friends work, next to Eindhoven, I saw this statue ๐
Letโs zoom in a bit ๐
Such a cool work of art, donโt you think?
Back to the motorway ๐ฃ๏ธ and off we gooooooo ๐
The roads are easy to drive around this time. Not many traffic jams luckilyโฆ it is almost 12:00h now.
The sky is busyโฆ so many linesโฆ ๐ค
Haha do you see the tractor on the roof of the building?
In the Netherlands we have many bridges over busy roads just for the local wildlife. They can cross that way safelyโฆ itโs planted on with plants and grassโฆ
Not sure if this was one of those bridgesโฆ but you notice them around.
We cross some cool bridges ourselves too. We are still in the Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ here.
Itโs a large one.
Following Arnhem nowโฆ
Some more cool #artworks next to bridges.
And along the roads ๐ค the form changed as we drove past.
Hubby is driving all day today as I had some trouble with my back. So the photos are taken by me today ๐
I see Arnhem in the distance going over another bridge.
Traffic is getting more busy too now.
Beautiful view from here ๐
And the sign we follow nextโฆ ๐๐ vroom vroomโฆ
More windmills here and large farmhouses.
Some birds flew over, I just capture them in time ๐ฆโโฌ๐ฆโโฌ
We are off the motorway now.
A stunning windmill ๐
The cloudy sky makes for a lovely photo ๐ my favourite photo of the day!
If you look very closelyโฆ those 3 sheep ๐ in front of the windmill are no sheepโฆ but large rocks with black parts attached to them. Very funny ๐คฃ
We drive and driveโฆ
I see some more signs for the CARNAVAL, it doesnโt go much further into the Netherlandsโฆ as it is celebrated mostly in the southern parts of the country.
If you look closely you see a bird of prey in the tree top. I was too late with zooming inโฆ
Where do we go next?
Hhhmmmm the roads are changing as does the landscape ๐
Do you see what I see?
We are crossing into our next country ๐ค
Now we are in #Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
So far we have driven in Ireland ๐ฎ๐ช, France ๐ซ๐ท, Belgium ๐ง๐ช, The Netherlands ๐ณ๐ฑ and now we reached Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
5 countries in this road trip so far ๐ awesome!
Letโs continueโฆ as we havenโt reach our next accommodation yet. ๐๐๐๐
The road signs are so different.
The roads are luckily very smoothโฆ
It is rather #interesting driving in Germany ๐ฉ๐ช
For those that have driven in Germany know ๐
One can drive really fast there. If you try to take over a truck with 120 km/ h you have to be careful not to be hit by a much faster car in the backโฆ that drives closer to 160 km / h or + hahaha ๐คฃ just crazy sometimes. Itโs like standing still on the road when they pass by even if you are going 120 km/h.
We have a car fully loaded and are therefore heavy so the car canโt pull up fastโฆ lol
Trucks passing by each other sometimes tooโฆ
We are entering some longggg roadwork ๐ง hereโฆ
It seemed to go on for ever ๐ค
Crossing some more cool bridges.
Finally we are off the motorway and back to the inland routesโฆ my favourite roads to drive ๐๐
Going through small villages. I see a mural on the left but had no time to catch it well.
Tree lined roads with birch ๐ณ
Cross roadsโฆ letโs go left ๐
We are almost thereโฆ a few more towns and forests to go though.
Different kind of windmills now ๐ค
They are everywhere we are driving towards now.
And we reach our next accommodation for the night.
We have a living roomโฆ kitchenโฆ
Bedroom and a bathroom.
Itโs so cuteโฆ the owners changed their basement into a living accommodation and rent it out.
Some beautiful details all around ๐
Alsoโฆ sadly the internet or mobile reception was not enough here to upload any photos so I had to wait a few days. Until I could update you more again.
So letโs look at how far we have driven in this part.
The meter says : 127.911 km
What means we have driven 312 km along the road๐โฆ
Adding the first total we get : 2,053 km in 5 days ๐
The route (ish) we took, we went closer to Enschede ๐ณ๐ฑ and avoided most of Germany as the roads would have been very busy around Dรผsseldorf especially now they are changing bridges there.
I hope you enjoyed coming along for this part and the previous parts crossing ๐ฎ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ฑinto ๐ฉ๐ช. Stick around to see what will happen in part 5 ๐
Join me againโฆ ๐๐ป๐ as it will get even more adventures as we go along ๐บ๏ธ
โฆ and thatโs all for todayโs post my friends.
Join me next time for more #updates, #adventures, #stories and #photographs ๐๐๐ป
Even my own #artworks, once in a while, will come byโ ๐จ
Thank you so much for looking, and reading.
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Have a great day all ๐
Grtz Jackie
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