Road trip in Europe 2017. A bit of France. Road to lavender
Finland and Norway were the 105th and 106th countries that I managed to see. 106 countries, it's a little or a lot, for a boy from Novorossiysk, who lived with Mom, on the verge of a very small income. We were not beggars, but like all ordinary families living in the USSR.
I want a united Europe, with a single currency and visa-free travel
After leaving the ferry in Denmark, the city of Hirtshals, I headed to the south of France. The motorway in northern Denmark is average. Mostly plain and landscapes are not at all interesting. It rained all the way to the very south of Germany. I repeat that small towns and villages in Germany are very beautiful. In the Hamburg area, the road is like a web. If it were not for the navigator, then you can wander here for two days to go in the right direction. Here you need to add huge traffic jams.
There are many roads, but traffic jams persist. I did not visit Hamburg to spite the Fritz because of the not very warm welcome of our President at the G20 Summit.
Refills in Denmark and Germany are expensive 1.43 euros per liter of diesel. Temperature + 13. Decided to have lunch at the cafe "Baden-Baden" at one of the gas stations in Germany. Smells delicious, especially when hungry. Fritz gave me old-fried potatoes in solid oil, a steak floating in fat, and a bun. For everything I paid 12.34 euros. I immediately realized to taste that everything was prepared early yesterday, and today later today. Don't European tourists feel that the Fritz in this eatery are not selling fresh food to them? Ate only a third of it. From the excess fat in the repeatedly fried steak and potatoes, I had an opposite reaction to food. As I understand it, roadside eateries in Germany fool those passing by as well as in Russia.
I remember soups in cafes at gas stations in Slovakia in 2014 with gratitude. There they prepared to the conscience.
Interesting WCs at gas stations. You pay and enter. Annoying flies fly, this is apparently so that you do not feel lonely in a confined space. You press the button above the toilet, and the circle begins to rotate, clearing itself. You squat. To the right above the level of the face is a SLR, this is to examine your own face in the process of cleansing the stomach. right in front of you is a flyer that says if you buy 10 packs of Durex, you get the 11th free. Slightly above the second sheet of "Help the children of Africa. " It's nice to deal with an enlightened country.
About four hours later, I drove into a beautiful place of a large food complex. Began to look for a place to soothe my stomach. A minute later he ran away.
Families with dogs sat at almost every table. The tourists themselves ate and hand-fed the dogs that had just been walked on a beautiful lawn with flowers opposite the cafe. Perhaps it is customary for dog lovers to take their dogs after a walk to a cafe, but I am used to eating among people. Once upon a time, a broadcast on English television firmly convinced me that an animal is an animal, and it can never be washed to a human body cleanliness. Unfortunately, pets, the most vaccinated of the vaccinated, the purest of the pure, bring many diseases to their owners, which they are not even aware of. Everything is attributed to other factors.
Having passed many beautiful cities in Germany, I went to the border of France in the area of the German city of Freiburg. Here the showers stopped, +27. The border is not at all noticeable in the form of an abandoned building. The first kilometers in France broke something in me.
For the first time I began to consider France from small towns and rural districts. Somehow everything here is human. Cozy, beautiful, and mostly farmland everywhere. I don’t know what exactly, but only in France did I experience my special attitude towards this country. Everything here is something that does not exist in other countries. Special, right? Agricultural fields are like rich pictures in all colors. Wheat has already been mowed in many fields. In France, it grows even on the slopes of the mountains. The French would like the fields of the Kuban, where everything is even and accessible, but grown by hand from the back. Our grain growers are still far from French. Here they love their land, and take care of what they grow on it. This is the attitude in many European countries. When will the Russians learn to love their land so much that feeds them?
On the way, I stopped at the Ibis hotel. The hotel is average, but expensive from the cheapest.
I turned on the TV to watch the news, but I saw the whole process of celebrating Bastille Day. I have never seen such beauty of the celebration online, and even on high-definition TV. The celebration was attended by the main showman from the United States, who was sitting on the podium waiting for French President Macron, who by car drove around the people of Paris standing along the main street and the military. Then the ground equipment passed and the planes flew by. It was an unforgettable sight. I could not tear myself away from the TV screen for more than three hours. Until now, I am very impressed by what I saw. I advise all tourists to get to Paris on this great day for France. You just need to watch it on TV, where everything is shown in the smallest detail, which you will not see standing on one of the sections of the road, and closed by the police. I fell in love with France again. Somehow I will come to the country for the whole summer in the small towns of France. She deserves it.
On the last kilometers of France, I began to come across the first lavender fields, but more on that in the next story.
I stopped in front of this sign and began to think, where to go? FREEDOM your mother. How did Europe do the right thing? Single visa.
I have never been as free as I am at this moment.
Now I look at these photos, and tears well up from resentment at our former leaders who kept us in bondage, not seeing the beauty of other countries. Leaders! So that you feel as good in the coffin as we lived.
First lavender! ! ! I will soon see the lavender fields where I have been longing for so long.
