O.K. so I have some blog posts to finish but instead I went swimming, sea shells searching, romantic strolling along the beach, playing with the children and now I am sitting on the hotel balcony looking at the wondrous blue atlantic ocean and drifting away. However I wouldn't change a thing there - great quality time with the lovely family is the best.
Lost myself to the sound of the giant waves, it got me thinking sometimes I really can't believe that I am actually here. 10 years ago, the idea to be somewhere close to the sea was very scary. It always looks so mysterious so vast that my head automatically says once I go in, I would never get out alive again. And back then I couldn't swim. But being on this caribbean island for almost 6 years, I am now familiar. The country itself is familiar. It is not so much different from my home country.
Lost myself to the sound of the giant waves, it got me thinking sometimes I really can't believe that I am actually here. 10 years ago, the idea to be somewhere close to the sea was very scary. It always looks so mysterious so vast that my head automatically says once I go in, I would never get out alive again. And back then I couldn't swim. But being on this caribbean island for almost 6 years, I am now familiar. The country itself is familiar. It is not so much different from my home country.
All of this reminding me one of my forever favourite songs "Oh my God" from the greatest Indie-Rock band which I am a die-hard fan of, the Kaiser Chiefs. Their music has always been with me since the release of their album "Employment". They lyrics in "OMG" say it all really. It has the connection of my life when I was a teenager in Cambodia who always tried to get out of the badly corrupted country (sad because it's a beautiful small country) to find better student and private life opportunities somewhere miles away and to finally settle in my early twenties. I can always relate to every words in song. Well quite. Except the part "sucked more blood than a backstreet dentist". Haven't sucked anyone's blood. Yet. Only been sucked blood by the many many mosquitos here.
And now it is indeed, "Oh my God" I can't believe it, I've never been this far away from home. Dominican Republic and Cambodia. A complete opposite side of the globe.
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Cheers,
Always very interesting and worthwhile to follow your recommendations. I encounter new things every time.
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