my bro went above and beyond his duty for me this trip not only for the big drive to Novi Sad and back, not just for taking me to the bat caves and his banter, most definitely for taking me to the airport! for normal I wouldn't give such high praise as I would have done all that for him BUT unbeknownst to me this weekend was the rugby world cup! he is a huge rugby fan as most ex decent players are and this was the game of the tournament for Scotland! they were playing japan whoever won was getting through to the next round, My flight time was 4 pm its around 2-3 hrs drive from his place to Sofia airport he had to drop me at the time the game was getting played he was going to miss it, what a trooper he never even moaned and said he wouldn't see me going to the airport with anyone else,
He was delighted a new section of motorway had been opened shaving at least 30 mins of the journey, he would catch the highlights (Scotland lost and were sent home)the drive to the airport improves all the time as of writing this there is still what the people call a gypsy community shanty style town on the approach, Its a strange concept to an inclusive Scot like me but from what i`ve experienced in Bulgaria and Romania there seems to be a sort of twin nationality with these large gypsy communities there is probably no politically correct way to write about it but the gypsy communities are large and live in squalor with horse and carts,
the only thing I would say about Sofia airport was there was some bargain whisky`s and i regret not buying any, the flight home was nothing to write about either usual Ryanair stuff I was at the isle among non English speakers so i just listened to my audio-book,
Off course it was lashing down with rain when I landed at Edinburgh airport Gary had very kindly offered to pick me up and was waiting round the corner, the rain was that hard there was a big pool of water on the motorway we had to slow for. he dropped me at the land and sea fish and chips shop, I had almost eaten half of my breaded fish supper with brown sauce before I got home, tasty stuff sea fish is better than fresh water fish (in my opinion) I had been in central Europe far from the sea for A while and was loving my haddock, I was only home one night and Ali and Gary wanted a catch up so it was a quick unpack and off to the Black bull for some beers,
One night at home in my own bed and my big feather duvet felt great in the morning, I had a look at my organizer since the twenty eighth of July to the fifth of November I will have been in my own bed a total of eight nights, that`s 100 nights out of those 100 four nights were camping four at Cameron's house two at Bryan's the rest in various hotel beds! I always enjoy the train journey up to Aberdeen and my dinner while there its vegan Monday in the union street Brewdog bar every trip away for me on that Monday, that Monday i also visited the bar my niece works in but she wasn't working when i went in
it was dark as I flew out from Aberdeen for Shetland in the morning the oil rigs in the north sea below as we flew over looked like little Christmas trees in the middle of the sea, I was back at work before I knew it adventure over, twenty one night-shifts to go before i can have another adventure, all those months ago i planned to take my bike to Bulgaria did I achieve my objective? I suppose i did the bike is in Bulgaria, I had cycled up the Rhine to Mannheim then down the Danube to Bulgaria? (nearly made it) it was a great adventure, I had went up through Holland into Germany then through Austria and Slovakia then Hungary and Croatia to finish cycling in Serbia, while visiting my son and brother,
back out running over my favourite peak on Shetland, I was asking myself was all that time away cycling alone worth it? when i think of all the things I could have done with that time and money,
Christopher McCandless wrote in his diaries as a third person using the pseudonym Alexander super-tramp - this suggests he understood himself as a character in an adventure story, One of his last diary entries was -Happiness only real when shared!
this blog has been a diary of my latest adventure story, if you are reading this now and have been reading them all then you are probably one of my close friends or family, I have done this blog so you could share the adventure, I would be delighted if you would text me if you thought it was worth it? also should I do a synopsis post on that very subject what I learned from what I seen and done on the journey? or should I move on to the next adventure? because I have lots of work to do on that already, I've made a start on that work including a new blog
well done you.
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