I don't speak French; maybe I can understand only a few basic words that we all know - bonjour, merci, amour etc... besides them, I know very well how to say traffic jam. I know that from experience, already for a few years. Le bouchon.
Today is the second day of our road trip of driving back to Spain. Yesterday - the first day we spent eleven hours on the road because the traffic was heavy on one part of the route, but it was more or less expected. Today - the second day of driving got complicated. Only 700 kilometres were planned, which meant 7 and a half hours of driving in total. Reality: we've been on the road for 10 and a half hours.
We were hit by two traffic jams for more than an hour each. When we saw the first one on the navigation, it was only an hour and a couple of minutes of delay. As we got closer, it grew longer, and even while being in the traffic jam it was getting a more desperate situation as time was passing. That was still in Italy.
The estimated time of arrival changed a bit...
Well, it was accepted and we continued our trip as if almost nothing happened but then the second traffic jam befell us in France, again a loss of an hour. Since we would still waste this time stopped on the highway, in the traffic without moving, we decided to leave the highway, drive on the regional road, and return to the highway where the traffic was clear again. Go with the flow, that's what they say, right? We tried to use that hour to see something else - to get to know the traffic in a small French town whose name I don't even know now hahaha and then through a really beautiful landscape, mountainous, through greenery to "skip" the nervousness caused by an hour's delay on the highway.
I hope I will be able to upload the little video from the hotel room where we are staying. And I apologize for the short post today, but my message in short: obstacles are never in the plan, but when they appear you have two options: endure with patience and beat the obstacle or simply choose another path and take it, even though you won't get faster to your destination lol. {does it make any sense? š¤} In our case we did both options today. š
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