The travel mood caught me off guarded

Today I received an e-mail from a friend who is spending one year in India. I was very curious what she was writing about cause I am always interested in what she is experiencing there. As I’ve been a bit worried about her because three weeks ago she told me that she and her group were planning a trip to Nepal at the beginning of May – yes, exactly the time the earthquake took place there - I was very glad to hear that they changed their route to a trip through northern India.

So they’re currently staying in a town near Delhi and working at the German Bakery at the riverside of ‘Ganges’, the big holy river thats water may be good for your body and soul if you have a bath (or some more:)) in there. I find it incredible, that she made it there and then got a job at this well known bakery that I just saw in a movie last week!

When I read her e-mail for the first time, I immediately had to think of the German movie “Beste Chance” where a girl is searching for her best friend in Delhi and ending up in this bakery at the riverside of Ganges deciding to stay there for longer to free her soul and find to her true self. I found myself smiling of this coincidence…because if I hadn’t brought the movie home from the library and watched it, I wouldn’t have known that such a beautiful place even existed, let alone what it looked like. I love these movies that make me wanna pack my own backpack and just go wherever it takes me. 

Do you also have this feeling when watching a movie related to travel? Maybe you have some kickass movie recommendations for me? ;)

In this moment the excitement got me and I wanted to feel like I was also spending some time there. So I picked up a pen and my small sketchbook, looked at some pictures from this beautiful place again and started drawing. I almost felt like I was sitting there on a wooden chair, by myself, just watching the people passing the bridge and the turquoise water floating down the river.

How beautiful this must be. I like to have these imagined trips to foreign places. It’s a great method to overcome your wanderlust a bit and have a travel adventure at home. If you haven’t tried it yet, what are you waiting for? Besides sketching it also works with a lot of other cool things:)

Motto 2015: Getting lost

To introduce this blog I decdided to tell you a bit about how I see traveling as an opportunity to learn something new.
For this year I made so many plans for so many different things that I can’t get all done in one year. But traveling longer and getting lost as well, was pretty much on top of my list. Cause this is one thing that we really miss out sometimes while traveling. We are holding our maps tight to our bodies to be able to look at them every corner we come along and we don’t even recognize that we spend more time looking at the never ending colored lines on the map than at our surrounding. So why not just putting it away for a short while, just walking down a street with head and eyes towards the sky and enjoying? After only a few minutes you will have discovered a lot more than you would have if you worried about whether the next crossing street is the one that’s on your route or you just have to walk back again. The city will greet you right back as you look up to it ;)

If you liked what you read (or not) please let me know. As I’m not a native speaker there will maybe occur some mistakes or misunderstandings due to my messy English :P but I I’m trying to avoid them. I always write about how I see or saw the things, so when I write about ‘we’ I don’t wanna judge anybody, it’s just to make the texts sound more personal. If you don’t agree with me on that, please let me know as well:)
Dare to get lost !