home sweet home
We are back in Holland again, staying with our parents untill we are able to go back again into our appartment.
This gives us some time to do things like read our mail, do the laundry, unpack, etc. And of course looking back on our trip. Strange to think the trip is over and now just a memory…
In the meanwhile while we were enjoying our travel, things were happening back at home: some of our friends got pregnant, a couple of baby’s were born, some friends moved to a new place, some friends moved in together and even some ‘die hard single’ friends found a partner. Unfortunately also some bad news reached us.
Besides that we couldn’t believe all the things happening back home. First of all, after being away for just a few weeks, I found out the department I used to work for was being sacked. So the (pretty hard) decision to give up my beloved job to go travelling, turned out to be the right one!
And while being away the recession also hit Holland fully, so the job situation changed around completely from since we had left (a good reason to stay away a bit longer). Another worry while travelling was that our real estate agent, through who we had rented our flat, was going bankrupt.
But after 8 months of travelling all of this doesn’t seem to have mattered: all my colleges have new fun jobs, our broker was part of a bigger company so it has been rescued by its mother company, and even the resession doesn’t seem to be a worry as there are still plenty of vacancies to apply for.
We feel happy to be back home especially since we were being welcomed on arrival at Schiphol by our family and some good friends (including one of the ‘new’ baby’s). We are also enjoying things like clean clothes (in South-America the washing machines are not that good) and of course stroopwafels, drop, a glass of cassis, bolussen, etc.
Or actually, just the fact that you can eat and drink anything. Or take every bus (without having to worry if the busdriver has driven to many hours) and take any taxi without the fear of being hijacked and robbed. So we appreciate the things you take in Holland for granted again.
After more than 8 months of travelling, having exciting new experiences and changing everything constantly, we now still have things to explore, being back at home: we are looking forward to see the new houses of our friends, meet their new partners, their ‘new’ baby’s or see how other babys meanwhile have grown into little kids.
And after our amazing trip, travelling to Tokyo, Australia, Argentinia, Chili, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Lima and Madrid, we now have come to the most scary part;
going back to ‘the real world’…….
Love, Martine
P.S.
This blog and our foto’s on Flickr were our way to stay in touch and let you know how and what we were doing. Besides if there was an exceptional reason, we have not sent any mail. So don’t take it personal if you didn’t get a postcard……… 😉
P.P.S.
The coming days we will be posting loads of new pictures on our our Flickr-webpage since we are still 3 weeks behind, so keep checking! We even are posting more pictures from Salar de Uyuni so now there are almost 100 (Hundred!) Salar de Uyuni pictures to see.
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