Luka /sonomu.club/
Traveling with a van from Porto to Ljubljana. Three days, 2500km. Nothing spectacular, just a bunch of photos of motorway, motorway, and, did I mention there will be motorway?
A thread of unlisted posts to avoid saturating local and federated timelines. Followers will be bothered (mute on y. o. discretion). I won't allcaps this time.
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
Luka /sonomu.club/
@clacke maybe
Luka /sonomu.club/
@clacke i will be home. :)
well, i will unload the van, storing scenography to our small warehouse, and go vote fascists out of office!
but to finally answer your question - it's a return trip from Porto where we played Matija Ferlin's 'Sad Sam MatthΓ€us' solo piece: https://emanat.si/en/production/matija-ferlin--sad-sam-matthaus/
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
Luka /sonomu.club/
while I was sleeping
the gray cover teared
and blue sky
and sun came
longer rest (1430-1600) with some food and coffee
french 'aires' (pit/rest stops) are likeable, lotsa greenery and trees, especially between motorway and the parking
Luka /sonomu.club/
some **ck-up with accommodation (small italian hotels actually close at 22h and cannot accommodate you if yoi arrive later) so - change of hotel and destination for tonight - near Torino.
I'm already past Aix-en-Provence, had a nap and some foos at calm rest-stop (no shops, makes a huge difference). Thunder and rain on and off though.
Continuing into the night. If I make it till hotel at 1am I'm good!
Luka /sonomu.club/
snow
near carcassonne
on the tarmac
but nothing on trees and fields
d-594km
Luka /sonomu.club/
@vesperto it's a contemporary dance piece that I'm involved with that needed scenography at the festival in Porto.
https://emanat.si/en/production/matija-ferlin--sad-sam-matthaus/
Luka /sonomu.club/
numbers metric quantified progress success
passed DEST-800 mark
7h30m of driving to go
distance B = 986 ( from Porto)
distance A = 3666 (from Ljubljana)
Luka /sonomu.club/
no more drama
just a gray cover
water coming down
traffic intensifies
toulouse pΓ©riphΓ©rique
rest-stop longer
than intended
body-mind demands
road materialism
659KM to go
vesperto
@luka
Do keep notes on resting places and alike... and share!
How did you plan the trip?
Why Porto/Portugal?
Stop to stretch your legs every two hours and don't drive more than 8h/day, otherwise you'll be risking fatigue-induced accidents.
Luka /sonomu.club/
Plan for today is to arrive to Savone, Italy. 980km.
Oh and in Spain and France they seem to not care about COVID19. At least judging from the fact that nobody is wearing masks, even those who cough and sneeze and have a runny nose.
Luka /sonomu.club/
Depart at 9:09.
Dark gray overcast
up ahead above Toulouse
scattered blobs behind
over Atlantic coast
in rearview
feels like I need optimize
the stops
the rests
the naps
drizzle starts
Luka /sonomu.club/
Arrival at the hotel at midnight: ~800km @ 12h.
Luka /sonomu.club/
Drove for 2:15, passed LeΓ³n, but before that some snowcapped 'hills' with lotsa wibd turbines. Again sime showers but bot much. Traffic is chill. Thinking of Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders and soundtrack to it by Ry Cooder. Took another nap and now a coffee. My breaks are much longer (almost an hour) than anticipated.
Luka /sonomu.club/
Quick nap less than 2h away from sleepover destination. No coffee. Lotsa water. Night has fallen, leaving the Spanish plains, entering mountains. Traffic is a bit more intense now. Will pass through the Euskal/Basque part in hour and a halfm Probably.
Luka /sonomu.club/
Started at very human hours from Porto - forgot something in the hotel, so more or less left Porto at 1130 local time. Some rain but not too much. Roads are not crowded. Entered Spain, found a stop near VerΓn, nap, coffee. Continuing at 1545 (UTC+2). Destination for tonight is France, near Biarritz.
Santa Claes πΈπͺππ°π
Luka /sonomu.club/
@clacke my way from Ljubljana to Porto : https://sonomu.club/@luka/108154328186425824
Luka /sonomu.club/
@clacke and in Italy they are very persistent, with even single use plastic gloves at this hotel rn
FionnΓ‘in
@luka Love these updates. The journey, any journey, always fascinates me. And motorways have a weird charm.
Can't remember if I shared this with you before when we had a short conversation about travelling without planes β my road-trip from Ireland to Iceland: https://shanefinan.org/moonunderwater/?p=96
From my now-defunct blog so please forgive the styling. And also I was 11 years younger so please forgive the clunkiness.
ββ Dona ββ
@luka I'm enjoying this trip thread :) Jelly of all the delicious Italian espressos! :D
Luka /sonomu.club/
another stop, first nap
intense multilayered dreaming
clouds and sun
no rain
past last four hours mark
plains of northern Italy
Emilia
415 to go
Luka /sonomu.club/
To add to the above (written very late), I had great fun driving this one! I was amazed at roads, especially the tunnels on italian side.
Luka /sonomu.club/
a seemingly pleasurable sunday morning, all chill with relatively empty Italian motorways, always great Italian espresso, I have 618km ahead of me (5hr22min by gmaps' calculation)
despite the hotel breakfast including coffee I needed another one within less then an hour of driving
Luka /sonomu.club/
Safely at the hotel. And Google Map instructions and calculated times were actually quite right. But, what I didn't know that it will take me via high mountain pass Col de Montgenèvre (1860m) with snow and -1°C! It was pretty scary at some point as everything seemes like I will soon start sliding down the mountain with all the scenography in the van... But everything was all right at the end...
Luka /sonomu.club/
last stop last nap
italian espresso
and sweet pastry again
familiar spaces
all a blur
when looking back
here's the van
now returned
scenography safe
in our warehouse
5200km
five days
three hotels
one mountain pass
two seas
four countries
twenty power-naps
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