Last moments touching the homeland. I’m leaving without too much regret. I wonder when I am going to start feeling homesick, if at all…
That’s cool… It is a strange feeling when You can see the reflection of your car while driving in front of a big window pane. It is even stranger when it is a lot bigger window pane and a much bigger vehicle.
I got a seat in the end of the plane and thanks to this I could stretch my legs during the longest part of my travel.
Over the Mediterranean Sea. Goodye Europe…
My ride from Singapore to Auckland.
The flight over Australia. Not too much of sightseeing… Anyway, my first time on the lower part of the hemisphere.
I reached Auckland in complete dark so there was no point in taking pictures. I will have a lot of opportunities to post pictures from Auckland in the future.
On the night before my take off to Kiwiland, Barbara and Jo dropped by for a short visit. I mean that it was short when You consider the effort that was made to meet. They flew from Kreuztal to Berlin and then rented a car and drove all the way down to Katowice…
We’ve spent a few hours in a restaurant and had a lot of fun, although that was not the best moment we could choose. I had to do all my packing between 2 and 4 am, just before leaving to the airport.
BTW, 20kg is a joke when You try to pack your casual and formal clothes. I ended up without a warm formal jacket - which I hopefully won’t need in Auckland.
There is a strange feeling that I have sometimes.
When a big thunder storm occures - a one that makes the noon looking like late afternoon, turning the blue sky into dark yellow, with the wind carrying sand and everyting else it can and with a rain that seems to have inivincible plan of drowning the city - it seems to me like something must change. The world cannot look the same after such a storm. And when it all calms down and the sky becomes blue again nothing seems to have changed. Only the bird’s poo on the car’s windscreen seems a little washed off.
On the other hand, on a day like any other day, You come to work expecting just another pile of boring emails and You get one with a proposal to go to the other side of the globe to see what it is like there. That kind of change really deserves at least a snowfall in May…
I have just received a mail from the travel office. Toghther with the details of my trip I got a link to a website with some ridiculous amount of “useful” information. Have a look:
mytrip
The power of internet-enabled data flow is incredible.
Well, it looks like 3 weeks from now I am going to be in Auckland for a moment (or a little longer, maybe). I will spend a lot of time in the position marked with a blue circle on the left.
Still, I need to find a place to stay and I think it would be nice to live somwhere between the blue circle and the city. Of course as close to the water as possible…
You know what it is?
It is my father’s idea of saturday morning fun. Of course, putting stones in piles was no fun and took us much more than just the morning…
We have found a few interesting fossils like that:
At the end of the day I didn’t feel like having any more fun…
