TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, August 7, 2008

6:38 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Arrived back in Berlin with the smoothest transition between places I can remember. Joel picked Clea and I up from the apartment, after my last kopi and kaya toast at tamang jurong food court, where I wrote notes for my singapore punk spirit short story. Drove us around to respective places, dumped my luggage at the aiport, went for lunch on the east coast, met mark for a good bye coffee in the city, back to the airport - thankfully am pathologically early, as my flight delayed until 4.30am, but the qantas angel put me on a plane to frankfurt instead, with much better connection for berlin, and avoiding heathrow entirely. ah the bliss. lay on the floor of changi airport, listening to the melange of sounds from piano lounge singer, waterfall and football channel. Got the TXl bus into alex, easy transfer to M2 and out at the top of my street, picked up the keys from corner cafe, and landed in new plush apt for next 3 weeks, bless my Finnish friends.

Have just managed to scrape myself up from the floor and to local cafe for wlan, as wifi not working at home - oh the trauma!!
Berlin is strangely quiet - partly summer holiday season - but miss the noise, the heat, the people, the traffic, the construction - hell, I even miss the MRT, and I hated every second on it. Mostly the people tho. Having reverse culture shock, or just jetlag daze limbo. Feel between worlds. Loss and love and connection and yearning.