Hi all 👋🏻
Let’s update you on PART 5.1 from 11 today, our adventure to our new home 🏡 and country 🗺️
I divided this next part of our journey into smaller parts as I have so much to show you along the way 😉 it was pretty cool…
These 11 parts will be about our move “driving” ourselves to our new COUNTRY 😊 of residence. 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 part 1, have a look here: The ferry crossing ⛴️🌊 part 1, Ireland 🇮🇪 to France 🇫🇷
For part 2, have a look here: Mainland Europe ~ France 🇫🇷 part 2
For part 3, have a look here: Part 3, France 🇫🇷 , Belgium 🇧🇪
For part 4, look here: Part 4 ~ a bit further 🇳🇱 🇩🇪
Are you ready to come along again today on this special… extra part of our trip?
Today’s selection will be of 61 photographs.
Date: 2 February 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 😁
As I did in the last 4 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 : 127.911 km
Here we goooooo 🚗🚗🚗
I am driving the first half today so hubby will show you some photographs 😊
We leave our accommodation in Germany 🇩🇪 and start driving.
The day starts greyish.
We are following signs and will enter many roadwork 🚧 stretches what doesn’t help our journey as we need to catch another ferry ⛴️
Our views… windmills and road works. Not much else for the first part next to motorways and lots… lots of cars and trucks.
Our journey is long like the others…
We pass by big cities in #Germany 🇩🇪
At our lunch stop around 1300h I take a photo of the road side restaurants and shops interior.
We had a good break and replenished our energy for the road and hubby will drive further so more photographs now from me 😁
The large parking lot 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗
Driving out towards the motorway again 🚗😎
I see some graffiti on the back of the sign 🪧
Closer by 😎
The roads are long and we still follow the signs for the big cities 🏙️
Hahaha I had to photographs the back of this truck… would there be a rhino 🦏 in. Or maybe our belongings going also our way.
The movers said 3 to 6 weeks… so probably not 🚛🚛 🤣😂
Some nice signs showing some interesting places in the neighbourhood.
And one of many traffic jams we ended up in today… sigh ☹️
It is slowly clearing up… we hope 🤞🏻
Hhmmm let’s go right here…
Where to next 😎
Some cool bridges.
I think the sign is a bit drunk hahaha 🤣
More roadworks 🚧 ahead of us, what slow us down a lot. Luckily we anticipated them so we have plenty of time to reach our destination for the day 😇
As we pass by #HAMBURG we start seeing cranes 🏗️ from the port.
Like everywhere… 🏗️
Both sides of this road. 🛣️
Getting close to a large tunnel we go through… under Hamburg 🇩🇪
We picked the ride side… I love the lines…
And we enter 🚗🚗
The lights changed to orange.
It was a very long tunnel, but finally we see light again 😎
More road works and on the other side of the road the traffic has come fully to a standstill… a long traffic jam. We are luckily still driving slowly further.
Even the motor driver is standing still…
It seems to continue and continue… luckily it is not on our side 😊
We go… that way 😁 following green signs.
The roads remain busy… not a fan of it. So luckily hubby is driving 😃
I see another graffiti, this time along the bridge.
So very colourful… I see lettering but because of the sign I can’t make up what it says… 😎🌈
The weather is deteriorating… it gets foggy and the rain 🌧️ is starting…
Traffic is going slowly again…
I so tried to get this mural on the side of the bridge… but my phone sometimes focuses on the wrong things. Hahaha 🤣 the heat spirals in the window don’t help either. Half of the photos I have to remove 🤓
Still though this is a cool photo so I included it 😊
Aha… the sign for the ferry ⛴️ do you see it?
More rain 🌧️
Driving into Kiel, there is a back up at the traffic lights 🚦
A cool text on a little working truck…
We stand still for a long time, still following the sign to the Fähren ⛴️
Entering this large port city 🏙️
Now we see why we didn’t move for a long time. Police cars 🚔 and ambulances 🚑 on the road 🛣️
We passed by an accident… a few cars 🚗 hit each other in a junction ahead. We finally can drive further…
The city revealing itself.
I capture some of the large buildings we see along the way. Love their #architecture.
The rain isn’t making it easy to capture hahaha 🤣
A foot bridge over the road connecting buildings.
Love the round building. Very cool. It stands out well.
A square and church in the distance.
The cities casino 🎰
Have a look at the ferry ⛴️ we will be taking next 😳 it is massive. Definitely 10 times as large as the one we had for our crossing from Ireland 🇮🇪 to France 🇫🇷
We drive in for check in… and park the car in the line for cars 🚗
We walk towards the building for check in and receiving our cabin cards / keys 🔑
They have a little Stena Line ferry on display, I capture. So cute 😊
For this post, I leave it hereby… and will post in 5.2 the ferry ride, inside it and our views 🥰
So let’s look at how far we have driven in this part.
The meter says : 128.220 km
What means we have driven 309 km along the road🚗…
Adding the first total we get : 2,362 km in 6 days of driving 😉
The route (ish) we took, we always divert slightly as we adjust to road conditions…
I hope you enjoyed coming along for this special part crossing 🇮🇪🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇱🇩🇪
Stick around to see what will happen in part 5.2 😁 on the ferry ⛴️ 🌊🌬️
… 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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