So it’s been a while.
Actually, I missed my appointment of the tenth anniversary of starting my world tour back in 2011.
Never mind.
As it turns out, I am able to go on a new adventure right now.
I’ve been many places, but this is going to be something different.
During the past ten years, life has changed a lot for me (well, I’m pretty sure yours changed, too!).
Some people may know that shortly after I returned from my travels, I found the love of my life, Katharina.
Some people may have heard that we founded a family and now have Johannes, an awesome kid of seven years.
When I left my home to travel around the world, it was somewhat clear that I could come back to my home town Munich. Back to the country I was born.
This will change right now. We, the three of us are leaving Germany. We are going to relocate and be living in Sweden. This is a big WE instead of I.
The decision was made about a month ago. And today we are sitting in our tiny car, and the radio plays ABBA, not on request but by incident. Dancing Queen, not exactly 17. Before we were listening to “Inside Out” (Alles steht Kopf) which describes our feelings pretty well.
Our stuff is packed back in boxes in Munich and our car is crammed with our two suitcases as if we are going on a short vacation, except that we’re not. Johannes is headbanging to the music, and we are singing along. Sometimes. Our feelings are mixed. It is not easy to say “Good Bye!” to all the friends we left behind. We still hope that we will see them again, have a laugh together or otherwise stay in contact. We’ve got cookies from them or the best wishes for our endeavours. We were lucky to have them.
Good karma. No traffic jams, okay weather and a full moon. The sun never rose that day and the grey sky turned black at 5pm as if to tell us how short the days will be in Sweden.
We reach Hamburg 8.5h later. My brother and his family take care of us with open arms and we feel like home again. Roasted chicken fills our tummies, and our hearts are light over the nice conversations we have with my brother Pit, his wife Rakhee and Rani, Rakhee’s sister. Johannes plays with his cousins and goes to bed very late. He seems happy and I think we all are.
We’re all good. The days in crazy Germany are counted.
Maybe I’ll write about our motivation and expectancies later, but not today.
