Category archives for Home between travels

Hard times preparing…

A lot of people asked us “So? What’s it like to be home again?”. A question, we can’t really answer, as in one week, we will be on the road again for 3 months. In the meanwhile, “being home” is like a 100% full-time job, preparing our bikes for the next trip, taking care of administrative stuff and route planning. As for Jean-Christophe, he is having a hard time, changing and preparing the website for our future trip…

It's hard...

:-)

Vera & Jean-Christophe

Home after one year: did anything change at all?

So on the 31st of July we flew home after having been away for exactly one year. We were thinking that a lot of things would have changed, but very rapidly we found out that, no, in fact everything is still exactly the same. People still complain about their jobs, road works in Germany are still going on (we are seriously wondering if anybody still remembers what the goal of those road works is since they started 4 years ago…) and the grass is still green. Now this is normal, because while we were experiencing so many new things and learning a lot, “life at home” just kept on running.

But when we scratched a little bit under the surface, we quickly get to see, that indeed some things changed…

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Out of order…

After a 12-hour long flight, skipping a night…

Out of order…

Vera & Jean-Christophe