In the German-speaking world, when someone suffers a misfortune, whether small or large, it is often said: "It couldn't have come at a worse time."
The Irish see it the other way round, they say in such cases: "It could be worse." - and thus testify to their imagination: for it could indeed always have been worse, instead of the leg, one could also have broken one's neck.
We love the Irish language, the many friendly phrases and the benevolent conversations.
And as we spend the last few days in Mullingar, standing right on a small untravelled river, working and drifting through town on our SUP in the evening, one thing becomes clear: we will miss Ireland.
Instead of "heating up" to the north again, we stay a quiet weekend in the small town and then roll into Dublin days later. Here we want to spend one last Irish day and then take the ferry from here to England.
Just now we realise once again that we can never see everything anyway. Yes, we missed the one important street, this one town, the museum there. Here the pub, there the mountain.
It is not always easy for us to accept this. We listen to podcasts about it, read books and come to the realisation, with small steps, that it is nonetheless is a beautiful time in each case, even if or precisely because we don't see everything..
In Mullingar we mentally say goodbye to a country that has surprised us in every way. We sit around, reminisce, make plans and just be in the moment. We try to conserve the friendly nature of the Irish in us and take it upon ourselves to adopt some ways of thinking or talking.
Merci for "travelling with us
We are thinking about taking another break from travelling in the summer and visiting our families in Germany and Switzerland. One of the ideas is to organise a Lecture about our long journey to the Persian Gulf to prepare. If you would like to, what would interest you the most? We will also tell stories here that don't find a place here on the blog. We're thinking of the Bern and Berlin area - simply because we have family there. But other places are also conceivable. Feel free to write to us.
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