TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, July 5, 2006

11:55 PM
Posted by jodi rose

you have arrived.
so said the ad for glasgow in bmi inflight magazine. I am prepared to take their word for it. Think I might be here now.
lovely being back in the town for summer, everyone was right, it is a completely different place. the afternoon heat promises lazy days by the vadas pool and long evenings in the hills after harvesting grapes all day. welcome to your 51st home, laughed miki as he met me with andrea and malinda at the station from the bratislava train, and installed me at the vadas tourist hotel - as opposed to the luxury one. which is fine by me, too much decadence can get oppressive after a while - no, really - and there is something very calm and welcoming about the minimal room looking out onto the main street, although my view of the basilica is obscured by trees. my new home is literally right next door to the green pub, which any of you who followed my adventures here in winter may find as hilarious as I do. just hope the walls are thick enough to keep some of the loud music out. or else I will be tempted to get up and join the party. all good intentions for now, of swimming every day and climbing mountains. not inside drinking. no, really.

there is something deeply satisfying about returning to a place, I find, that allows the connections you make to deepend and your experiences of it richer.
it is time for me to start collecting these fractured scattered puffballs of my life and draw them into something coherent. after a little holiday...