vagranting

so i’m typing this message from my old house in samford. which will be vacated and sold by 3.00pm tomorrow. it’s a strange thought. it’s been slightly frustrating to have such a large task looming over the family home this week, while i’ve tried to relax. but it hasn’t been so strange getting back as i thought it would be. in fact the most surreal thing is how quickly everything has appeared to go back to normal.

i haven’t driven a car, made an espresso, slept in my own room for a week or gone out with a large group of friends in 7 months, but it’s just clicked back in place. which is reassuring, and also disconcerting.

in the next few weeks i’ll be trying to sort through the several thousand photographs which have yet to be processed, and summarise what i have experienced, learned and enjoyed along the way. i think if there has been a theme to the journey it would be: plan b aka. improvisation 101.

more to follow.

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so, i’m in hong kong, with a couple of days left before i finally get home. i’ve realised a couple of things being here:

1. i am a banana. yellow on the outside, white on the inside.
2. while i had my doubts at times through this trip, yes, heat is worse than cold.
3. i’m glad i came here at the end of my trip. there’s a lot of cheap junk here to buy, and i would have been torn about buying it if i had to lug it across europe.

i’ll leave it brief, and make the reflections on the trip as a whole when I get back.

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