Tomorrow morning I'll head down to Stewart Island, where I'll be completely off the grid. Maybe the cell phone will still work in the small harbour village but that's it after that I won't have electricity or any comfort I'll spend the new year far away from anyone except the person I carry with me in my heart.
Maria I miss you.
It seems auto correct is trying to torture me, this morning Madrid became Maria. Not that I need reminders, because she is in my mind all the time.
Half a year ago I still thought great times were about to begin and after the disaster when I visited my parents I thought she would have liked them a lot, just looking at how many sweets they eat. It could have been great.
Instead I'm now in a hostel where I don't really want to be, instead of the Christmas barbecue people were joking about, all there is here, is rain. Apparently this place is known for its terrible weather, the worst place in the whole country it seems.
So I'll spend the day in the hostel thinking about her, hoping for a Mary Christmas.
It's funny, I lost my wallet on Friday and people told me they know how I feel. I don't think they do. I don't really care about it that much, I lost a good amount of money, my driver's license and some cards, but that's not the part I really care about. The thing that makes this sad for me is that it was something I bought together with Maria.
Maybe I don't really care about these other things because I have lost a lot more this year -her. I am hoping and wishing but today is my birthday and still nothing.
It's only a few days left until my birthday, and there is only one thing I am really wishing for.
It's also probably not long now until a little parcel hopefully arrives at it's destination, that is if she even still lives there. I left her a few little things and it wasn't easy to arrange when I left Madrid in kind of a rush, but I hope she won't go on hating me.
There is only one thing I wish for and she probably already has all but forgotten me.
I accidentally posted the articles which were meant for my travel blog here, I'll remove them from here soon and repost them on the right blog. I'll also answer any comment at that point.
Waiting to board at Dubai airport. Free WiFi here doesn't work. So far not many things worked out.
First yesterday there was a traffic congestion. That wasn't much of a problem as the driver took an alternate route and we were like 2 minutes late. I was in luck since the bus stop was at the right terminal. Everything went smooth until I was at the point of baggage drop off. I was told I'd already need to have my visa. Oops. The clerk said she couldn't let me fly without one and wondered why immigration didn't tell people because she had a similar case recently already. After some discussion and calls I bought a ticket so that I could enter on a regular tourist visa. I guess this means I'll have to redo the x-Ray and additional medical checkups. Great. The 100 or so euros for the x Ray wasted. They tried to talk me into a cheap ticket, but I bought a full price one so that I simply can cancel it without incurring a financial loss one I have my wh visa. So finally I could move on to security. Apparently one of the guards had been eyeing me from afar, because as soon as I came closer she started to ask me about my vibram five fingers and was rather flirty. I already had forgotten that people do that and while I answered the five finger questions the rest of the security joined in. At some point after jumping around a bit and answering most of their burning questions. I suddenly realized that I was spending an awful lot of time there and moved to the gate. I was still earlier than the personnel for the boarding though.
Then I waited. We started late because of a shift change in the fueling company.. um yeah. The flight was uneventful I ate salmon and watched movies. Then we arrived late in Dubai and after going through immigration and waiting for the bus I was in my room at 1:xx am local time. Little time for sleep got up at 6:30 am had a super short breakfast, showered and then proceeded to the airport in order to wait. Finally the WiFi sort of works... a little. It is 9:44 the (again) delayed boarding should commence soon. I wanted to book a place to sleep from here but WiFi doesn't work for that. Oh well stopping to write now.
