It was one of those classical evenings during the first year of university in Tartu, Estonia.
Terje, an economics student at the time, invited some girlfriends over to share a bit of her recent weekend getaway to London. While opening the 2nd bottle of cheap red wine, she spontaneously said: “Why don’t we go and live in London for a while!”
Berit, a student in semiotics, hurrahed without thinking much: “We’ll sure do it!”
Although those wine soaked ideas quite often remain as such, and to tell you the truth – we barely knew each other at the time, next week we had our tickets. A few months later our experiment of survival in London was fated to start. With hundred pounds in our pockets and only an unknown future waiting for us, we decided not to return to Estonia before three months, come what may. And what came was a building-up of a beautiful friendship of us.
To balance the glamorous and money motivated London lifestyle we then flew to rusty India and communist Cuba. Month by month this way of experiencing the life became a necessity. Exploring different cultures had become a lifestyle, writing a passion and our friendship a soulful magical relationship.
Our interests grew more similar each day and once standing in the desert of Peru, just having had an amazing San Pedro cactus experience, we realized that our lives were so crissecrossed that our similar paths in life were becoming more and more clear. The next year we both started our studies in cultural anthropology. Year by year the last fact has started to formulate our styles of writing, travelling and experiencing.
It was great to meet you in Amsterdam
Indeed! Hope we’ll catch up again somhow somewhere. Still listening your tunes at http://bomisfit.bandcamp.com/album/the-empire-state-cottage
I had forgotten that paypal at limited (terminated in fact) my account for ever so if someone wish to purchase even a track of the release on bandcamp I can’t even proceed to receive the payment and apparently so far bandcamp doesn’t deal with an alternative other than these dicks at paypal. So I decided to make all the tracks available for free. So if you return to my bandcamp page you’ll now be able to get any specific track or the whole compilation album for free; all I’ll need instead of funds is the e-mail of the downloader and in case you’ll share it or copies of the music to friends please just point them at my website (the one embedded in my name here) or at least just mention me as their next to book DJ ;^)
Thanks you so much for the sonic appreciation !
Oh, dicks at Paypal then indeed. Thanks for sharing them for me! Really appreciate, your beats were feeding my appetite all day and will for more…
love the story of how “ït all began” with your journey. Look forward to reading more of your musings…
Your photos of your travels are amazing.
Thank you so much!
Well, you two are amazing. Most of us just talk about it; you are doing it.
Thanks for visiting our family travel blog and liking our post on the Gilis! Too bad our paths did not cross on Gili T. How was the wind these last days? It seems we made it off just before the high winds and heavy rains! I love your blog!
We were there when the weather was still burning and winds mildly fondling our cheeks. Wasn’t it just the perfect place to be?
Ladies – thank you for visiting my blog and liking my post. I’m continually amazed how we can share our lives with people around the world with the click of a button. BTW, your travels are amazing – so much adventure and intimacy in your stories. I’m not surprised at the recognition you’ve gotten. Keep traveling!
She’s so cute!!!I’ve got goals, not resolutions. Goals seem hadrer to break, right?
SO: open my online art shop, learn to knit, do more weekly yoga, visit three states I’ve never seen. They all sound do-able to me!Happy New Year![]
Thanks for the follow, we are honoured, regards and take care on your journeys
Hi,
I like travel blogs because I never travel anywhere. I sometimes disapprove of travel because it contributes to climate change. I suppose it’s a necessary part of life! Thanks for visiting my blog; I’m glad you liked it.
Agree absolutely with Nadine above – thanks for coming across Learning from Dogs and deciding to follow my humble scratchings!
Hello Berit and Terje! Thank you so much for following my site! Wow, you are living such amazing lives, incredible! Blessings and love & light!!!
Thank you so much, guys. I cannot open your site anymore though, Nadine. Why?
Paul, I found your approach to life very clever and refreshing.
Keep up the great work and stay in touch!
Oh, I don’t know but I’m still in business… The others are still able to access my site and sent their “likes” and comments. You’re the first to have experienced this, or at least the first to tell me about it. There was also a time when I myself couldn’t access my own site. There was an error message sayiing something to the effect that I supposedly violated some of their t’s and c’s. I had just started my blogging and I am such a blogging/social networking virgin. So for a moment, I was like, oh no, what did I do? It took a few days to get it going again and wordpress said usually when it happens, it’s an error on their part. So, I don’t know what internal process they do when things like these happen. Please let me know how it goes. Thanks, blessings and love & light!!!