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Jan 27 - Jan 30, 2016 In Paris, France
What comes to your head when thinking about Paris?
I like to go museum and gallery. if you’re like me, you’d love Europe! if you make a plan to go Orsay museum, Louvre museum, make sure that have enough time for looking through every floors. I was there for 3hrs more. but it wasn’t enough. For me, Orsay was better than Louvre because I love seeing famous paintings.
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Paris was amazing. fabulous Architectures, so many kinds of desserts and Arts there. plus people! thankfully I met nice people in Paris. even they didn’t know English well, they helped me very kindly. it was impressive.
Going around by alone at night is very dangerous in this city. actually I don’t recommend going there alone. so, I found trip mates(동행) through Korean website. you could be more safer and take advantage of reducing meal expenses as a group in almost every restaurants.
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Strike happens in Europe quite often. Search various ways how to go places in advance. Subway was the worst way for me but the cheapest one. and please choose female only hostel or room share if you can’t affordable for staying in a fancy hotel. Don’t forget that Safety is the priority when traveling alone in Europe! (In Korea, we leave our belongings on seats when ordering / Going outside at 11p.m. alone to meet friends, buy groceries)
Sky Above, Sand Below and Beach is here
Day 2 of my trip
Day two was on the road for a long ass time. I was looking forward to finally having time to truly talk to Lena. Yes we text a lot but really for the past couple years even when I go there we have not had much alone time. Before when we would go there me and my kids would stay at her house and sleep there. I would always come with money to help buy food and do stuff. But then Lena’s mom moved in with her and was sleeping first in the living room. Then her sister kept moving in and out. There was too many people and no room for us without being too much. So I took on staying in hotels, which we loved cause we had our own space and there was always a pool. But then we would want to be there at the pool or whatever and we would invite Lena and her kids to come and they would sometimes. Then we’d go over there but I wouldn’t want to drink and have to drive back to the hotel. And there is only one hotel in her whole town and it’s expensive. So I have to stay like twenty minutes away. Before we used to go outside and talk alone for hours into the morning. Drink some, I would smoke and sometimes she would too. It would be great to catch up with all the details of things that are happening and have happened since the last time we’d been together. I felt at home with her. Now her mom moved out so we can get back to that lol.
We finally got on the road around eleven, which was my goal. We got subway and I ate half a sandwich and felt good with my stomach. We drove roads that I’d never really drove before and saw places I’ve never seen, which was cool. I love doing that. We only stopped three times, one to pee, one for apples because I was feeling I needed to eat but that was all that I could stomach. Don’t know why my stomach is weird. The last stop we got gas heading into the desert. I hate driving at night and I knew I would have to but I was hoping to do the least as possible. I had wanted to stop at this abandoned water park I scooped out but by the time we got that way it was too dark. Lena took a lot of pics and we talked a lot. We stopped once in the desert to take some of the sunset. We finally made it to Vegas around 9pm. I was nervous about check in and the fees and money and if the room was good or what. But check in was easy and our room was nice. We stayed about a block off the strip, but paid extra for the view of it. I was pleased with the view and the room was roomy and clean. I felt really happy that it worked out that way.
It finally hit me at that moment with much pride that I had accomplished my goal. I have done it on my own too. I set it and i was there. She much of my life has been full of no goals because I’d been so disappointed by failing at everything I ever wanted really bad. I’ve been afraid to ever want something really bad because it’s like automatically about to be a failure. But ya know, lately that hasn’t been true.
So I brought out the vodka and my dab rig. Them fools wanted to charge me 25 bucks extra for a smoking room. Like wtf was that?? I said no. But dabs are easier to get away with because the smell is not strong as smoking weed and it dissipates quickly. I wanted to be some sort of under the influence at all times on this trip. I planned to depend fully on my feet and public transportation the whole trip. Lena took a shot with me but pretty much stopped at that. I wanted her to drink more but didn’t press it cause it was like 1030 and we needed to eat. So we got all prettied up and went downstairs and ate at the restaurant there. It was good. We then proceeded to hit the strip. It really is amazing there, all the lights and other shit. I told Lena I thought Vegas was the city of fake since every single thing was fake. I know that we have outgrown the prime for Vegas. It was not even on my bucket list but it was the closest concert to who I wanted to see. I knew we weren’t gonna be partying like crazy but I wanted to make the best of it. We walked around and took pictures for the most part. I wanted to walk a little further but Lena was complaining how much she hurt and I WAS tired too. I was also hungry but she wasn’t and most things were closed. I thought I’d get room service when I got back but that stopped at eleven... which seemed dumb to me being the restaurant was open all night. I had some more to drink and smoked some, munched on the snacks I had brought. Lena laid down and went to sleep. At around 4 I finally fell asleep.
驚くべきことに、眠気はあったにもかかわらずイスタンブールからリトアニアのヴィリニュスに向かう飛行機の中でも僕は眠ることができなかった。これからの旅程への緊張だろうか。東京からイスタンブールに向かう飛行機と違ってオンデマンドで映画を見ることのできない小型の飛行機に乗っていたので、機内で眠気を持て余しながら過ごすのは退屈だった。
リトアニアのヴィリニュス国際空港はこれまで訪れた空港の中で最も小規模だった。人もまばらで、これが首都の空港であるということが信じられないくらいである。イミグレーションは特に問い詰められることもなく通過し(何故か入国スタンプをパスポートの最終ページに押された)、無事ヨーロッパに僕は辿り着いた。一番初めのヨーロッパの洗礼は、ヴィリニュスの空港のトイレで起きた。小便器の位置が異様に高いのである。僕は身長も日本では高い方だし、足の長さにもそこそこ自信がある。それでも僕の股関節の高さギリギリに据え付けられたその小便器で用を足すのは少々難儀であった。僕は白人の生活圏に来たのだ。
国際空港から市街への移動には電車とバスの二つの手段がある。電車の到着が1時間後だったこともあり、僕はバスで市街に向かうことにした。起床してから24時間近くが経過し、疲労困憊していた僕は駅前に停車していた適当なバスにとりあえず乗車した(僕はものぐさなので旅先でよくこういうことをする。毎回なんとかなってしまうのが不思議である)。
バスでは運転手に運賃を払わなくてはいけない。僕は20ユーロ札を出したら、運転手はすぐそれを突き返した。何を言っているかわからないが、どうやらお釣りを出せないようだ。運転手は仏頂面でダメだ、と言うのみである。入国したばかりでまだ小銭は持ち合わせていない。取り乱した僕は満員にも関わらず座席に荷物を置いてしまい、老女にたしなめられて益々取り乱した。旅行に出ても、旅についてくるのはいつもと変わらない情けない自分自身である。
そこにリトアニア人の少しがらの悪い青年が片言の英語で話しかけてきた。留学生か、という。違う、と答えた。市街に出たいのだがどこで降りればいいか、ときいたら降りるところを教えるからとりあえず座っていろ、という。僕はそれに従い、席に座ることにした。銭を持ち合わせてなくて困ったよ、と言小銭がなくて困ったよ、と言うとまあそういうものさ、と彼は応じた。話しているうちに僕が降りるべき(と彼の言う)停留所に到着した。
運転手に降りるよ、と言うと不服そうに頷いた。とりあえず降りて良いようである。運賃に関しては海外は割とおおらかであることが多いと感じる。地下鉄駅に改札がないこともざらである。
僕は青年にお礼を言い、ヴィリニュス郊外の川の傍で降車した。
飛行機の中では全くもって眠れなかった。映画を2本ほど見て、隣あわせたイギリス人の夫婦と少し話をしているうちにイスタンブールの空港に飛行機は到着した。僕は彼らにイギリス人の英語のイントネーションが好きだ、という話をした。彼らは少し戸惑ったような反応を見せた。
トルコでは舌打ちをしながら首を縦に振るのが「違う」のジェスチャーだという。僕たちが首を横に振るジェスチャーがこれにあたるのだそうだ。トランジットの荷物検査場でジーンズにつけていたベルトが反応し、検査に引っかかった僕は検査官にこの仕草をされて戸惑った。仏頂面で舌打ちをされるのはあまり良い気持ちではない。このジェスチャーの意味を知らなかったら猶更だ。
トランジットの時間は7時間ある。長いが、まだ夜明け前だったこともあり、市街に出るわけにもいかない。一度はソファに寝転んでみたが眼が冴えて眠れず、仕方なくフードコートで時間を潰すことにした。
フードコートにはトルコアイスを売る屋台がある。1カップ買うとフードコートに飛ぶwifiのパスワードを教えてもらえる。僕はチョコレート味のトルコアイスを買い、売り子の青年にパスワードを打ち込んでもらった。
アイスクリームを持ちながら座る席を探していると、誰かが僕に声をかけてきた。誰かと思って見たらさっきのイギリス人夫婦だった。僕は寝不足で疲れていたし、元からあまり社交的な方ではないので、彼らの傍には座ったが、二言三言交わすとすぐに背を向けて黙々とトルコアイスを食べ始めた。海外でバックパック旅行をする人というと社交的な人間ばかりに思われるかもしれないが、僕はこれにはあたらない。そもそも同行者も連れずに一人旅をしているのも友人と四六時中一緒にいるのが嫌だというそれだけの理由である。特に一人旅に対する強いこだわりがあるわけではない。
ハブ空港なだけあり、フードコートには世界中から来た多様な人々がいた。ヒジャブをつけたアラブ系の女性や民族衣装のようなカラフルな服を着たアフリカ系の人々、そして僕のようなアジア系。皆一様にトルコアイスをぱくつきながらスマートフォンを眺めている。wifi使いたさにトルコアイスを皆購入したのだ。世界中の顔を合わすこともなかったであろう多様な人々が一堂に会し、同じものを食べながら皆一様に個人的な活動に勤しんでいる姿はなんだか可笑しかった。
フードコートで旅行記でも書こうかとスマートフォンのメモ帳を開いたが、まともなものが書けなかった。今書いていても思うが、旅行を客観的に振り返るには、旅行が終わってある程度の時間が経つ必要があるのだ。
フードコートでスマートフォンをいじるのにも飽き、夜も明けてきたので僕は屋外の見える大きい窓に面したソファに移動した。飛行機がひっきりなしに離陸していくのが見える。僕は飛行機恐怖症の気があり、飛行機に乗るときはいつも緊張してしまう。一時期は飛行機に乗る前日には必ず神社や教会に行って神頼みしなければ気が済まなかったほどだ。だが機械的に連続して飛行機がイスタンブールの空港から離陸していく様を見ると、飛行機の飛行なんてありふれた事象にすぎず、緊張するようなことじゃないのだと思わされた。未だに飛行機恐怖症は残っているが、この時見た光景を思い出すと少し気が紛れる。
そうこうしているうちに搭乗時間になり、トランジットは終わった。次このイスタンブールの空港に来るのは東京に帰る時である。無事2カ月の旅行を終えられるか不安に思いながら僕は搭乗口に向かった。
MERBABU
Same Place Different Stories (Part1)
First time i came to this place it was 5 years ago, i went with my friends,it was Waone and Androng. From the beginning of this journey we got a lot of temptations, our bus got trouble with its engine, and it meant we couldnt climb on time like our schedule, the temptations didnt stop in this moment, at the night after the long journey from our hometown to the our campsite, the storm hit us, our tent got submerged because our tent cannot hold the heavy rain, and the result? we was swimming when we sleept hahah, And finally the morning has come, we believed that day would have the nice weather because the storm had come at the night, And you know what? we wrong, we got another bad luck experience, the storm hit us again when we reached the summit, the temperature was very cold and the rain was so heavy, what about the view from the summit?we got nothing except mist that so dense, oh yeah i forgot that before we reached the summit i fell and got injury, my leg got twisted, Afterwards we went back to our campsite and prepared our hiking tools, then we went to merbabu basecamp for reregistration and report that we had come back safely,that’s what i got from my first trip to this place.
“The Bad Experience”