Wow!!!! I am already back in Brazil, back to the routine and trying to solve some small issues that came up while I was away and I was here thinking that I didnt have a chance to follow up with my trip, which I wanted to share.
To begin with, again, the primary reason of my trip used to be the Sweden Rock Festival. Then I decided to extend a little bit, since i was already on the other side of the ocean, to take the opportunity to know different places and bring back new images to my personal archive.
With the years I got to know some very special people and for this reason, they are now a reason of my trip too. Not only the fantastic Festival, but to meet my special friends have become a very special moment in my life! Now I can say with all my forces that I would not give up this moment for nothing! Nothing at all!
Before I left, I had in mind that I wanted to travel around Germany, specially Berlin. I love that place!
After a while, still in Brasil, some relatives were going to Lebanon, from where my family is from and where I always wanted to go, but for some local reasons I never had courage enough to go. If I did not know myself, I could have taken the risk, but knowing myself fair enough I am sure I would not be able to walk around Middle East without my professional photo equipment. Now, imagine after the death of Bin Laden, I could be caught by those fanatics.
So I gave up and one week before leaving, I had to buy the EurailPass and define the countries I would travel to. Certainly I would need to have Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg), Denmark and Sweden in the pass, so I chose Germany, which was my innitial plan.
The pass I chose allowed me to travel by train during 5 days (not consecutive) around the countries above.
After the 4 day wild Festival, I went on my personal trip.
I was really in need of this break, I was really stressed out and after crashing my car inside my own parking lot and finding out I got an ulcer in my stomach, I really wanted to get away.
I can say this trip brought me lots of new experiences, lots of surprises, brought up many truths about things and situations I was in, and I am really glad to have found out where I was really going into. And I can say I was going into a wrong path.
As everybody knows, nothing is always 100% perfect. I can say I had awesome moments and not so awesome ones. There were many times I was completely happy, others I felt really lonely. However, I enjoy the lonely moments too because they make me reflect about my life and myself.
There were times I just wanted to "throw" myself somewhere and never come back to Sao Paulo. Others I could not wait to come back home. It is not easy to live on a suitcase.
Honestly, in the latest days i could not wait to come back home, but as soon as I got in the gate at the airport, all I wanted was to stay. The trip was terrible! I always ask the window seat because usually i have a red wine and fall asleep during the whole flight. But for some reason I did not feel like wine and I could not sleep at all. One nap here, other there... and that was it.
I was really anxious to see my dogs. I knew as soon as I got in the house they would get crazy to see me and they would jump on me, and call for my attention. I was looking forward to that.
Now I am back to the routine. Still trying to solve those small issues I mentioned before and I am already stressed out. I am already looking forward to my next vacation, as if it was my own "Carnaval", right on the day after, the next year's Carnaval starts to be planned.
Let's see what happens in the meantime!
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