You know when they say the meaning is in the journey and not in the destination? They are right.
This girl’s trip came such a long way that the destination doesn’t even matter anymore. What matters is that we are going…Somewhere…Anywhere.
And God only knows if we all happily settled on Budapest out of genuine enthusiasm to visit the cradle of the Austrian-Austrian-Hungarian Empire or simply because we wanted it done and over with.
And I swear I am not ungrateful, on the contrary. I am quite excited to go to Budapest, it just took a lot of organisation and planning.
It was not only a matter of synchronising the four of us who were going away, the dates had to match the travelling husband’s working engagements and my loyal and trusty tradesman who was supposed to renovate the main bathroom.
My head was wrecked, but I did it . Every piece of the puzzle was fitting in …. till it wasn’t:
One of the trees in the garden fell over the neighbour’s pergola, the loyal tradesman for the first time in years was not very trustworthy and didn’t show up when he was supposed to, the travelling husband messed up with the dates and booked himself a business trip overlapping mine.
The young and still aspiring to some control over life version of me would have had a massive meltdown but the too old to g…e a f..k and wise version of me refused to be defeated by the fate and focused instead on the positive sides of the series unfortunate events.
I won’t lie, it was not easy to find any. Especially at 5 pm of the day before I had to leave for Hungary, when the new vanity unit was still resting in her sealed box in my sitting room and the toilet was still disconnected.
The tiles were all down though. Slowly but surely we would get there. Also, by a fortunate coincidence, the travelling husband was landing shortly before I would take off the following day and so I could easily drive to the airport and leave the car with him. The puzzle pieces were going back to place and stay up till late to pack and scrub the muddy footprints from the white carpet on the stairs (it had rained all day.) is a little price to pay to finally relax in a Hungarian thermal pool.
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