Today, Barbara and I woke up in Adamas, the harbour city of Milos. It was the eighth time we slept on our trip. The first time was on noisy Piraeus, then we went to the isles. We spent two nights on glamorous Santorini, three on the quiet island of Folégandros and two more on Milos. Much of the time was on the water, where we used three big ships and went on short trips on three smaller boats. Especially on Folégandros, we also did a lot of hiking.
Milos was also a place where we had wonderful hosts, which is true for the entire journey, during which we spent our time with very agreeable people. I was surprised about hardly ever meeting Germans. Yesterday, we were again the only Germans on a trip on board a ship with fourteen persons from France, Great Britain, Island, Canada, Italy, Spain and New Zealand.
Today, at 14:05 hours, we will go to Serifos, where we want to spend two more nights before going back to Piraeus and then taking the underground train to our last overnight stay in an Athens hotel before boarding our train back to Munich.
It was an agile and slim trip, with little luggage and the simple idea that we visit a few Greek islands on the Cyclades. Barbara had prepared well, but she had made no actual plans except the flights out and back in and the first hotel in Piraeus. The entire route of the journey materialized on the way. For example, when we left Munich, I did not even know that Folégandros exists. But then, the recommendation by our landlady in Santorini was so unmistakable that we simply had to go there. And as it turned out, a ship left on the next morning. …
Under the Greek sun, I had an idea. As we all know, some people call such a trip “vacation”, so here is what they wrote: “Let us meet again after your vacation “. Well, fact is that what I did here is exactly what I do at home: I was on the move all the time, although not with my bike. And I learned, worked, wrote articles and enjoyed life. And I tweeted. Yesterday, I spent 11 hours on my Account rolandduerre (https://twitter.com/RolandDuerre):
Insight
My life is one long vacation on this beautiful planet earth – some kind of travel&work on earth.
#ponderings on #the meaning of life
I cannot get rid of this idea, which is why I will now relate it to you.
Isn’t my entire life one long “vacation” on the planet earth?
It has now been 66 years for me here as a resident. I was welcomed in a very friendly manner. However, as I remember it, the next few years were those during which I was to be educated, schooled and directed towards being a good and high-performance person. I even had to sleep in a (medical) cast – in order to correct my “Morbus Scheuermann“. That was when my joy about being a child was over. I was unhappy, because they wanted to convert me into something I did not want to be and neither did I understand it. I often heard the sentence: “If you continue in this way, you will end up a total failure!“ Luckily, I “continued in this way” at least to some extent. And in retrospect, I should have done more of this “remaining the same”. And what followed then were fifty more or less happy years. Now considerably fewer years remain to me than I have already lived. For instance now, during our Greek journey.
I am absolutely determined to enjoy the few remaining days of my trip through the Cyclades as much as the years that probably remain in my life. But I am just as determined to use them well. For happiness and for my project PEACE (FRIEDEN).
RMD
(Translated by EG)
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