It never fails. There's some snow falling, illuminated by the streetlamp outside and I'm fixated.
I just returned from a three-day family road-trip to France/ Belguim. I really needed it. I really needed to get away. These were the perfect destinations, because they allowed us to spend endless hours driving. For me, this is endless hours of sitting in the backseat, listening to music, watching the changing landscapes and letting myself be soothed by the romantic, idealistic notions that always seem to fill my head when I'm on the road somewhere new.
Long journeys are one thing I couldn't live without. Wherever I'm going, I'd rather just keep going, instead of stopping.
I love visiting places I've never been to before, because it usually means a child-like sensation of awe. I can remember moving into the house we now live in when I was six; the first week we lived there, I was so excited by the newness of the house that I would run around the place, opening doors again and again, just to marvel at plain open spaces I wasn't used to. It also means no tired or upsetting memories. You are completely anonymous to that place, and can make your own memories and impressions.
Not that I didn't appreciate the sudden wave of familiarity and nostalgia I got when I walked across a bridge in Gent and realised I had been there before.
I am completely in love with the song Get me away from here, I'm dying by Belle & Sebastian today. I don't know how I've never heard it before.
Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the boy
When naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings
This fan-made video for the song kind of relates nicely to what I've written about in this post.
I just returned from a three-day family road-trip to France/ Belguim. I really needed it. I really needed to get away. These were the perfect destinations, because they allowed us to spend endless hours driving. For me, this is endless hours of sitting in the backseat, listening to music, watching the changing landscapes and letting myself be soothed by the romantic, idealistic notions that always seem to fill my head when I'm on the road somewhere new.
Long journeys are one thing I couldn't live without. Wherever I'm going, I'd rather just keep going, instead of stopping.
I love visiting places I've never been to before, because it usually means a child-like sensation of awe. I can remember moving into the house we now live in when I was six; the first week we lived there, I was so excited by the newness of the house that I would run around the place, opening doors again and again, just to marvel at plain open spaces I wasn't used to. It also means no tired or upsetting memories. You are completely anonymous to that place, and can make your own memories and impressions.
Not that I didn't appreciate the sudden wave of familiarity and nostalgia I got when I walked across a bridge in Gent and realised I had been there before.
I am completely in love with the song Get me away from here, I'm dying by Belle & Sebastian today. I don't know how I've never heard it before.
Oh, I'll settle down with some old story
About a boy who's just like me
Thought there was love in everything and everyone
You're so naive!
They always reach a sorry ending
They always get it in the end
Still it was worth it as I turned the pages solemnly, and then
With a winning smile, the boy
When naivety succeeds
At the final moment, I cried
I always cry at endings
This fan-made video for the song kind of relates nicely to what I've written about in this post.
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