Reunited

That's what I call a shrinking distances in a globalized world - where you fix a meeting with friends who are thousands of miles away and find yourselves hugging each other merely 24 hours later in a city far from home that functions as a reunion point and pit stop on your travels in various directions - in their case back home, in my case southward.

Last week I met up with Judith and Verena in Bangkok. I had planned to somehow meet Verena at some point in Bangkok as she being a flight attendant has the pleasure/duty to work on the flights over here and gets to spend about a day in Bangkok. Judith managed to tag along as a stand-by and so the small-scale reunion was perfect. It was great to see familiar faces and while I have been on the road for just a week, judging by our excitement you'd have thought that we haven't seen each other for months :-)



We had a lot of fun discovering Bangkok and spending time together - we always do. While I truly enjoy my independence and running into new people, it is really comforting to spend time with friends who know you and with whom you don't have to exchange the usual smalltalk phrases. There is not much that can beat bursting out into laughter after mentioning insiders that would make absolutely no sense to other people.

So don't get me wrong when I'm talking about how I'm getting sick of Vienna and how I cannot wait to leave the city - I am always well aware of the fact that I am lucky and I am somehow sorry that I'll leave amazing people behind (or scattered around in other locations around the globe as I'm not the only one with itchy feet). That is of course if I ever get to leave the country and find a job elsewhere, but this is a different story ...


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