Lausanne; a christians tent outside of cathedral; day5/44

After a good sleep and a shower in a house of our generous hosts, we have spent the next day in a tent with our new friends.

The tent was near the Lausanne cathedral and my christian friends were serving there goulash soup,tea,coffee,juices and biscuits all for free.

There were times when we would be singing songs together, although I was mostly just listening as my French knowledge is better in the future 😛

I have seen a lot of one on one talks and sharing of stories and opinions and I was involved in few of them…

In early afternoon I have met a friend from Lausanne and we shared a beer, it was delicious…

Evelyn was in her usual playful mode charming everyone around and occasionally disappearing just to freak me out a little bit 🙂

It was a sunny day in and around the tent as many people were passing by cathedral and stopping to have some food or to talk. I had some very interesting talks that are recorded and after this trip I will be editing them and sharing the most interesting parts.

Around 8pm we have all put a tent down together and then after a chat at our hosts home we were happily back to warm bed…

Love from Muppet and Evelyn

and a big THANK you to everyone we met on this wonderful day 🙂

Lausanne welcomes us…AUDIO

After great time spent in Geneve we hit the road again, but only for a short train trip to Lausanne. Before catching the train we found out the address of Armee du Salut in Lausanne and my plan was to go there after a short look around old town.

So we arrived with regional train to Lausanne and went to old town first.

That is when the surprise comes, we come to cathedral and in front of it we see a white tent and some people putting things away. They were serving soup,tea,coffee,juices,biscuits and talking about christianity to people who would come to tent. Peter, one of the people involved was very kind to invite me into his home outside Lausanne after 5 minutes conversation.

We ended up spending few hours talking until him and his wife Deborah were to tired and we went to bed.

 

Snaps and notes of days 1 and 2 :)

Keeping track of things roughly in muppetnotebook 🙂

sometimes you don’t want to look too closely at your face in the morning after a night sleeping on the town…:)

Sunshine and bench; perfect combination for morning break in a park 🙂

And last but not least, our friendly chocolate 🙂 rewards for intrepid adventurers always welcome 🙂

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As this post comes into blogexistence, we are somewhere close to Geneva…
Will keep you posted 🙂
Love and Peace

Grenoble,France and mountains around; love it…

Photos taken from La Bastille 😀

To friends known and unknown…

Dear friend,

I am writing this letter, hoping that is going to reach you in far lands.
It has been more then a few moon phases since we have seen each other.
In this period you were on my mind in certain special moments; it was nice to remember our time together and experiences that we shared. As I think about these moments I am hoping soon we will experience new and exciting time together.
I wanna THANK YOU for  the words of advice and a words of kindness that you shared with me in some of our time together. I appreciate a friend’s advice or opinion and even if it is different then mine I still learn from it.
I hope that you are also learning from me and understanding that my words are flown out there with the good will and good spirit…
Even though I never intend to hurt you I know that people sometimes feel hurt or offended regardless of your words and actions.
In any case I am sorry if this has happened between us.
I would like to tell you that recently I prefer action to words. I think it says more about honesty of somebody then any word can express.
I try to live a life of truth now and as I don’t have a need to lie to myself then I don’t lie to others too.  Of course I get of this path sometimes, but less and less as I am moving on.
I have traveled a lot this year and my travels have enriched my life tenfolds.
I am happy to share these new experiences,ideas and knowledge with my old and new and still unknown friends. For this I will continue to follow this path of my heart and intuition as this is the only path I know now.
I would like to quote something from a beautiful book that I am reading at the moment:
“Tell me a story, Pew.
What kind of story, child?.
A story with a happy ending.
There is no such thing in all the world.
As a happy ending?
As an ending.”

The book is called “Lighthousekeeping” by Jeanette Winterson.

So I say goodbye until our next meeting as it will arrive in a good time.

Yours faithfully,

V.

I wasn’t the only one having a coffee break…

what I like about it that people usually enjoy that first coffee in silence if they are outside their house…

I like that and I like a slow start into a day with peace and silence,specially in the winter…

As I am always so tsunami like energy in summer it is good to slow down a bit and get more focused in cold months 🙂

le chien think the same way, warm up and slow down 😀

12.10.12; Second day of our Road Trip :D

Waking up in Moravice train station, after few smiles and comments of people towards Evelyn we walked up 2km to get to main road and hitchhike.

But after few hour I realise there is not enough cars, I was even counting them 😛 and weather was very gray; so I went over to three guys that were having a little break in a bar nearby and asked them if they would like to by some tobacco from me; I had it already rolled into cigarettes and I said I am selling it to get the money for a train to Rijeka the non smoker in the group wanted to just give me the money but I left two packets to his friends to try. So now with 40kn in my pocket I went back to station and bought a ticket to Fuzine, which is few station before Rijeka. We hoped on a next train around 2.30pm and we arrived to Rijeka with no problems meeting two interesting girls in a train who were going to some student conference in Rijeka. While waiting to meet my dear friend from childhood, Evelyn and I started talking to a guy all Rijeka knows as Brada; he is homeless for more then 15 years, but from conversation with him he doesn’t seem to be bothered by that. He was very interesting and we exchanged views on many different fields and I got some usefull info from him. He also gave me a lot of fruit and I gave him my sleeping bag after finding out that his one was stolen. Next time in Rijeka I will look for him and maybe we can have a lunch together.

When my mate Goran arrived we went for a walk with Evelyn and his dog Lajka; he is a vet and since I know him he always had dogs; so of course I asked him many questions about Evelyn and he liked her very much. After a walk he kindly gave us alift to Lovran where we quickly found our dear friends that we met on a rainbow gathering ot so long ago in island of Vir near Zadar,Croatia.

In Lovran there was traditional 3 day festival called Marunada, it is festival of chestnut and my friends had a little table in old town where they served food, tea and coffee for free 😀 We joined them as they played music and we slept that night behind the main church on some beds; it was a warm and dry night so we had a good sleep… and I also got my camera back from one of my friends who kept it for me as I left it in Vir… at that time I wasn’t sure how long will I stay there but as the festival only started that Friday we decided to stay one more day at least.

more about that in next post…

check out Evelyn’s blog for her view on this trip 😀

greets from Grenoble where we are staying for another week… Muppet and Evelyn woof woof

While waiting for friends, taking time for myself…

Munchen is lovely as always with a nice sunny day and beautiful parks. I am going now to swim again in the Isar, clean and refreshing river that is going through this city. As I wait for Daniel to turno on his phone and also for Agustin to connect to facebook and txt me where we gonna meet, I am using this time to recollect my thoughts and work on some of my projects… I have a long list of things to do and many different ideas, so I have to manage my time and energy wisely… 

It is time also to get a base in Croatia from where I can work. Brac is probably my best option, beacuse I have great friends there and it will be in this amazing bay where they have built an eco-village. There is much more to be created in this village and I am looking forward to helping my friends expand their dreams 😀 

Over and out for now… 

yours in peace and love,

Muppet

Zagreb… day 10…

ZAGREB 07.07.2012.

Samedi

Here I am at Hausmajstor Baza in center of Zagreb; this morning I went to see my friends Jagec and Mladen  in their flat where I stayed for  5 days before I moved here to Baza on Stef’s invitation;

As usual on this trip, I changed plans as I meet people and new stories open up 😀

Nothing is set in stone… next stop is Rijeka, but maybe Ljubljana first.

In Rijeka I will see my mum, sister and hopefully cousins.

I saw my mum for lovely dinner when I was in Munchen; we did a day trip to Slovenia and Croatia with Sinisha and Lucynda; it was a magical day that I haven’t wrote about yet. Some things are so deep in heart that they don’t need to be written down.

I am so relaxed,living every moment fully and  really grateful; everything is just natural, I don’t try to be anything or make a fuss about what I do; I’m just living the life that I dreamed of since I was a kid and I feel like a kid free to explore the world in which ever way he want’s…

I now that this way of living is not for everyone but we should all feel this natural state of freedom; cause this is what we are in essence… whatever Freedom means to you, go for it and don’t be afraid of change… only then you will be truly happy…

Nobody owes anything to anyone, we are here to share, sing, dance, enjoy, love, help, explore, create, wonder, learn, teach, run, walk, hike, talk, listen, be loud, be quiet and above all enjoy the ride…

‘It is just a ride’ 😀

Listen bellow to the wisdom of Bill Hicks, one of my comedy and wisdom heroes 😀

Udo i nave; peace and love

O’Muppet ❤