Tunisia - Lazy Day & a Temporary Farewell

Tunisia - Lazy Day & a Temporary Farewell

We sit at breakfast, get really spoiled, eat way too much and get philosophising. Our dear friend feels like she has been travelling with us for weeks. Once again we have experienced an incredible amount. We have collected impressions and experiences and now, on our penultimate day together, we have to come to rest. Process. And reminisce.

We sit by the pool in our jackets and scarves (low season & single-digit temperatures, but sunny and windless), sunbathe and are full of gratitude for our time together.

How we feel about time depends not only on objective factors such as seconds and minutes. Time psychologists have researched why sometimes minutes seem like hours and sometimes hours seem like minutes. The finding: our perception of time depends strongly on how much we experience and how much we concentrate on time.

I see.

One factor that seems to influence our perception of time is our memory. The more we experience and remember, the slower time passes. (Good idea, we've been doing it this way for years!) Children and young people experience a lot for the first time and have to process it, so time stretches subjectively for them. In contrast, we adults (we are probably exempt here) often stay in one place and experience fewer new things, which can make time seem to pass more quickly.

But this does not only have to do with age. Rather, it has to do with the circumstances in which one finds oneself. So say the scientists. When we are trapped in routines and our lives hardly change, time may seem to pass more quickly.

We ourselves have never thought about how quickly time passes. But we hear such sentences again and again. Yes, okay, when we look at our children. But otherwise? When we look at our virtual diary here ourselves, we are sometimes amazed: "What? We've experienced all that in one year? Crazy!"

The next day - it is raining and Tunisia makes it easy for our dear friend to get on the plane - we tearfully say goodbye. But not without giving her two packages: one for our son, one for her: a kilo of Tunisian dates each, wrapped in pretty hammam cloths.

We thank you, dear Regi, for always visiting us on our journey. And of course for the great Facetiminate. It's so nice to be connected with each other! See you at Easter, okay?

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Tunisia - Lazy Day & a Temporary Farewell
Tunisia - Lazy Day & a Temporary Farewell


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.

By the way, we are travelling through Iran. It's possible that we won't be writing posts at all or will be late. We first have to see if it works for us. And whether we can even manage to write down all the fantastic impressions in good time.

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regul@
regul@
1 year ago

Cool - a look at the "Lismetä"! Thanks 🤩

Heike
Heike
1 year ago
Reply to  regul@

❣️❣️❣️ Yes, I can "cheat" a few knitting pictures in between...
Kind regards - Heike

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