Sorry, but we are not at home
Sorry but we are not at home
Sorry, but we are not at home
It looks like a dream will come true... At least the drunken visions we had in Nancy became true!
Valentine's day
For Valentine's day in 2009 we went for the weekend to Nancy, France. A former colleague of Agi had told us Nancy is really nice and has a fantastic French restaurant, which should not be missed. So we headed of to Nancy, got a nice hotel room downtown and enjoyed the city. In the evening to went to the square where this excellent restaurant should be, but after three circles around the church and checking every restaurant we saw (read: a lot. The French know how to eat well....), we still didn't find
THE restaurant. So option two was the local beer bar: more than 200 kinds of beer and a could vibe. There in that bar we started talking and planning about what we wanted to do. We were already looking to buy a house, had saved some money for that and suddenly the thought came up: backpacking. We don't have a mortgage, we don't have kids and still: one year is not that long.... You start working when you're 25 and stop when you're 65. So 40 working years. 1 year out of 40... That's ok, so lets beat the global crisis by traveling!!!! More drinks followed, other discussions came up and we finished our evening with the best Lamachun ever.
Approx 2 or 3 weeks later, back in Luxembourg, I or Agi asked the other:
"Did you also think about the backpacking idea?" and apparently we both had. But no decision. These kind of questions lasted for a couple of months and only in ~June 2009 we decided we would go for it. Once the decision was made, it was pretty easy. The only hard part was telling our parents... But all other stuff was pretty easy. We sold a car, quited our jobs, terminated our rental apartment, sold a big chunk of our furniture and packed our remaining belongings in boxes and had them stored at basements and attics of friends of ours.
The trip could begin!!!
We left Luxembourg on September 16, 2009 and went back to our parents on December 2010. I went to Holland, while Agi went to Hungary (No, we didn't break up, but it's just that our parents are living there). In total 15 months and 30 territories and they were great. No strange accidents, no big thefts nor any other crises. We had a good trip and we might do it again....