This is how my day started: feet up, good book, sunshine and blue sky! What a contrast with the week I just spent in the Netherlands where I only encountered dark skies, cold weather... It snowed for 2 days on a row and I even got sick. Probably caught some virus. Everyone told me that the flu had already made many victims! I must have been one of them. And it was a busy week at work since my successor started and with her my handover. I must admit that leaving the office on Thursday afternoon gave me a strange, ambivalent feeling. I felt sad and happy at the same time. A bit as I feel while reading the last lines of an excellent book. Happy to have read it and at the same time sad and hungry for more. I felt sad at the thought of not being able to see Ger and Lot every other week anymore. And all my friends in the Netherlands. Even some of my colleagues. Happy and relieved because finally able and allowed to let go of the enormous pressure I have felt during the last year as Internet Manager at Hunkemoller. Excited at the idea of starting my life in Tel Aviv. Thrilled at the thought of sunshine, warmth and most importantly of sharing all this with Stephane. Every day. Not every other week. And we did not wait a second too long. This morning, I first headed towards the beach, sat there on my own for an hour or so, reading Murakami, feet up... Stephane joined me for breakfast. Cigal, a friend of Stephane from his days at Kibbutz Amiad, happened to be there with a friend. We ended up sitting together for a few hours, talking, observing the crowd around us on the beach, ear dropping on a French couple having a serious fight.... At 3pm it became a bit chilly and we headed back home. No plans for tonight but we might just bike to Florentine for some life music, some food and some wine..... It is really good to be back home!
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