Wow ... it seems the biggest part of my journey so far has been leaving... considering it took me over a month to do it.
I appollogise in advanced for odd typing because im working on a french keyboard...which lets you into the secret that i DID ACTUALLY LEAVE!! after god knows how many leaving parties and tears and "i love you"s.
plans changed slightly though, no more sweeden and finland but instead a nice few weeks in france with Mikey hitching about before i head off to latvia to meet Jack.
So far Mike and i got a ride with a guy called Nate from Bristol all the way to pretty much my mums house in mid west france. The journey was long... longer than we imagined, i've done that journey many a time but never has it taken 24 hours before haha. but i guess its just preperation for whats to come.
in Usson, the town where my mum lives, it seems we arrived at an exciting day. this being the kind of town that has a weekly market once a month (with only 3 stalls i might add) and an annual party ... and thats pretty much it. So the arrival of a celebration of roman churches in the area followed by an impressive fire ceremony (which for Maria's sake mostly i have indeed got videos of bits of it) It was a surreal feeling to be sat in such a sleepy french village and have such a pagan ritual happening with the 8 directions marked out and an amazing ring of fire, the lady performing obviously know how to work with the fire spirits to create some of the more subtler effects. wow.
After mike and i hitched off, a sucessful day begining with waiting for half an hour behind another hitcher who himself had been there 2 hours and eventually gave up and we took his spot and ended just north of tolouse at a service station where a lovely woman and her son dropped us off to spend the night. here we met 2 polish hitchers who just got the,selves a ride all the way to perpignion!! go them at 8 o clock at night!
We camped up in a little woodland and the next day had a slow hitch abandoned in the subs of tolous but rescued by an party angel who took us to her field where she parked her caravan.. here mike cooked up some glorious rice and veg (after service station food for 2 days the simple foods really are amazing) and we rested our heads under the star lit sky, no canopy aside the one provided by nature.
Now here we are in Abli, the Pink City, and i'm off to explore the catherdral!!!!
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