I was in England for several months. In that bit where you could - it was right in the middle of the first year and you

I was in England for several months. In that bit where you could - it was right in the middle of the first year and you could travel a little bit and stuff - I drove to Italy by myself - I drove with a friend and then I drove back by myself [What was that drive like? In 2020] It was kind of like an open-ended trip. I think the biggest thing was like, any gap that I’d had to go on holiday or take a trip would be like, okay well I’d have a week so I’m not gonna drive because I should just get there and have as much time there as possible. So I drove there with a friend, we got there and he flew back a couple days later and I just stayed there for a couple weeks by myself. It went so slowly and felt much more like present than I’d been in a really long time. And you know, I’d walk around and I’d get a coffee and I’d sit down and drink it instead of like, oh I’ll get it and I’ll walk with it cause I’m going somewhere. I think I just like relaxed a lot and felt like no one knew where I was and felt like a human being. And felt very small in a really nice way. Driving back, I was by myself for the whole drive back and I love driving. [What did you listen to?] I listened to like, a bunch of books cause I was trying to kill so much time. A lot of the time, my stepdad passed away years ago and he got this car before he died and he always wanted to - he started driving it around the UK with my mum and stuff before he passed and they were taking a lot of road trips together and stuff. And he’d really wanted to go to Europe, and it had a lot of his old cd’s in it and stuff. So a lot of the time I’d put these old cd’s on that were just kind of like jazz and different kind of - and then you know you accidentally flick to some insane Italian radio station. [Did it get emotional?] Yeah, it did. I felt like I did a family thing and I think maybe for 12 years family things have not always been able to be the priority in maybe the way that they should’ve been or I would like them to be going forward.

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