inkavik

A slow journey to the rhythm of water and light, an encounter with a territory and its inhabitants.

📆 07/30/2025 — Continued from today

Reported by bre

July 30, 2025

📆 07/30/2025 — Continued from today

📍 Location: ///yell.slipping.sulked

After a good breakfast, we enjoyed a break in Basel:

⛪ quick visit to the cathedral,

🌊 a little trip along the Rhine,

😴 and an impromptu micro-nap for the most tired.

Then head for Lörrach, the last stop before the big jump.

🛒 Three well-thought-out shopping trips for a simple but balanced meal, and we're ready to board the car train.

Finally... ready since 5 p.m.

It's 8:20 p.m. and the train is still... stationary.

But the mood is good, the stomach is full, and the Jimny sits proudly on the second floor, among its four-wheeled counterparts.

Tomorrow, another country, another atmosphere.

But tonight, we'll wait a little longer, in peace.

Didn't even need to remove the extra 3cm.

#Inkavik #July 30, 2025 #Basel #LastCitySwitzerland #Rhin #TrainAuto #JimnyEnTransit #SlowTravel #Travel Diary #SlowTravel #Illustrated Adventure #RoadToIceland #What3Words

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