Just before Saarbrücken, I stopped in Homburg to fill up at the last Esso in Germany... grabbed a quick bite to eat and was off on my way to my B&B for the night.
Up until this point the trip was uneventful. Weather was cold but no rain or snow. But that was about to change....
My next stop was to be in Reims:
Circuit du Reims-Gueux
located here on GoogleMaps...
https://www.google.de/maps/place/Cir....9310455?hl=en
But when I got past
Metz and was in the
Reims metro area... the sky got really dark and a light snow began to fall. I decided to skip the old abandoned racetrack at this point - bc I probably wouldn't be able to get any decent pics... and soldiered onto my B&B in Champagne.
As I got pretty close to my hotel... the snow really started to come down. Also the address in my Nav/GPS was wrong, so I had to stop a few times and ask the locals for help. That was kind of interesting... luckily my Nav has internet access so I just search for the hotel/vinery name and found it that way.
Once I got to my B&B the nice old lady there tells me in French that her hotel won't be open until March! I was like WTF. Its snowing like mad and I am in the middle of no where. Grape country. I show her my reservation email.... and she says... oh wait... my son! lol Her son comes, and all is good. I was the only guest in their hotel that night. It was cool. We ended up getting quite the snow storm. The next morning over a foot of snow had fallen.
The B&B was simple and clean AND new. It was very nice and pretty cheap at 75 euros for the night.
Douard Christian...
https://champagnedouard.fr/en/content/6-bed-breakfast
Paris was in some sort of snow emergency event. Seems the French don't get a lot of snow. They didn't have that many snow plows and no one cleaned the snow off their cars nor did they seem to have snow tires installed. The polar opposite from Germany where all of that is mandated by German law. You even must have a snow scraper in your car along with cleaning off your car before driving.
That night I programed my Nav to see how far away I was from the Retromobile classic car show. I was surprised to see ALL of Paris highlighted in orange traffic nightmare. I could only hope tomorrow would be better.
Since the B&B didn't serve dinner... I ventured out in the snow to find a bite to eat. In the "big city" of Dormans... I found a pizza kiosque, so one pizza to go!
on the outskirts of 51700 Dormans, France on my way to the B&B...
Funny story... the hotel told me they had so many problems with guests forgetting to return the room keys. But since they put these key chains on... no more problems! lol
A small little pizza joint in 51700 Dormans, France
You just HAVE to, have one of these when in France!
I know it doesn't look like it... but there was about a foot of snow outside. I should have taken a pic of my car buried in snow... but I was on a mission to get into Paris! Only took me an extra 30 minutes with the snow delays.
my continental breakfast...
Another cool vinyard just down the street from my B&B. Off heading to the highway and to Retromobile in Paris...
Once I got back onto the A4 Autoroute heading into Paris... the road was pretty good. Only on the roads leading to the Autoroute were kind of sketchy.
Ok, now onto my pics! Sit yourself down with a coffee or something... I took "just a few" pictures.
Dackel