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| photo by Rosa |
But
I think that the most random weekend so far was in Brussel. Me and my friends Margaux and Rosa were looking for
a place to eat and then to have a beer. We ended up in this pub that I still
don’t know the name when two guys started talking to the Little One and the
Curly Hair One. Long story short they ended up taking us to a couple of other pubs,
one club that we didn’t go inside because there was a cover charge and finally
to a pub that I had been before and that I never remember the name. We had no
idea where the fuck were we nor how to get back. One of them gave us a ride
home. The second day was by no means less random than the night before. My
friend Wim told me about a house party somewhere in BXL. The three of us took
the tram to the center and were going to see what would happen next. I saw a
big mess in the back of the tram, someone with a Thor helmet, people in
costumes… It was Kat and Jeff and Gert! We went to this awesome house party
that only God knows (and them) knew where it was. We left, drunk with a rough
idea where to go, we had a hand drawn map. In the middle of my drunkeness I
started to hitch… at 4 in the morning and drunk! Then suddenly, a taxi stopped.
My first reaction was “we don’t have money!”. He didn’t care, he drove us to 3
or 4 street from home and of course, for free.
Wim’s
flat is in the North of BXL, it’s actually on the road that leads to Antwerpen
which is where I was going next. To meet Johanna, whom I met in Granada. I also
met with Janne; I met her in Estonia last year whilst working in the same
hostel. I spent only a couple of days in Antwerpen. Wanted to meet with other
people but, well, they were busy.
There
I was, standing next to a McRubbish, resisting the urge to go inside and eat
some of the most delicious rubbish I have ever eaten, but I didn’t do go inside,
I refused to do it. Instead, I found a ride to the first petrol after the Dutch
border. The guy was going to Rotterdam.
I have never been to
Rotterdam I said to myself. It was still early and I still had
time. Why the hell not stop a few hours
and then continue my way to Utrecht? That’s what I did. I was very surprised about Rotterdam, it’s nothing
like I experienced in The Netherlands. Everything is very modern, basically no
old building. Not that it’s bad but I’m used to see really old shit in NL. The
building and bridges were really nice. After a few hours I decided that it was
time to leave. I was not far away from Utrecht, a mere 60 Km. but still
took me a few hours to find a ride. Two good looking girls stopped for me and
asked me where I was going but unfortunately for me they were not going in my
direction. Pity, there were really cute.
So I stood there for a couple more hours. A couple of drivers stopped but all
where going everywhere but Utrecht. Finally a Spanish speaking Dutch guy
stopped and drove me to Utrecht. I mean, some drivers tell you “I need to be
somewhere so I’m letting you off here”. I’m not complaining about this, they
did me a huge favour bringing me there but this guy was like “I just need to
make a quick phone call”, this phone call was to his colleague telling him that
he was going to be late because he was driving me all the fucking way to Edy’s
house! He spoke perfect Spanish with an Argentinian accent. His name is Ariel
(well, that Latinoamericanized version of his name, the version he told me).
The
time I spent in Utrecht, as always, was really nice. Catching up with one of my
best friends. Eating a frozen pizza (like the ones I used to eat in Tallinn)
while having a beer: priceless. I spent the weekend and met with Livia whom I
met in Tallinn. I also met with Tami. She did a semester in Spain but we
couldn’t match our schedules. I did
nothing else than relax in Utrecht. Siemen, a guy I met in Granada took one day
to visit Utrecht and drink a few beers with me and Maria who was also visiting
town. All in all was a great few days spent in NL.
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| photo by Livia |
There
is a place that I always use when
leaving Utrecht. Is the entrance of the ring
road A27; I’ve used this place to go east to Berlin and South to Antwerpen. I
thought it was still the best place. It’s not as perfect as before. Before
there was a broke down lane, now it’s a two lane on ramp. Still a few cars
stopped before finally getting a ride with a new mum and her 8-week-old baby
girl. A Mechanical Engineering asked me where I was from and agreed to take me
to the next petrol station. After a few minutes of conversation he mentioned
that he lived 10 minutes from where we were and asked me if I wanted to stop for a
coffee and a sandwich before continuing. I had still about 500 Km to go but it was relatively
early so I thought why not? After an hour we were on the road again. A couple
of years ago I was on the motorway near Hengelo, stuck on my way to Berlin. It
was not only before a couple of hours of asking people and thumbing that a
polish lorry driver took me to Magdeburg. This time was exactly the same. Slow
but steady ride. When I made it to Magdeburg it was already dark exactly like a few years ago. What was different was that then, is that I found a straight ride to Berlin in a matter of minutes. This time, eerr, well not exactly. I even scared a woman and her daughter when I asked them for a ride while they were walking to the shop, but when they came out, they wished me luck. To not make things longer, after maybe three hours, I went inside for a coffee. I heard some people talking behind me. I asked politely if they were going direction Leipzig to what they answered that they were in fact going that way. They agreed to take me but warned me that the car was small. I though they were riding a VW Golf or maybe something even a bit smaller… it was a fucking
Audi A5! That’s a
semi sports car for fucks sake! The 120 Km between the petrol station and Halle
were done in about an hour. There were construction works that slowed us down
from 180 KPH to about 80 KPH in some parts of the motorway. One of them used to work for a company that was doing business with a Guatemalan company. "I don't know any Estonians but I do know some good Guatemalans" he told me when we talked about Estonia. They took me to Halle HbF and by 22:00 I was
already having a
Sternie with Anna.
