On return trip, i bathed in the skagerak. I always forget that it's not the baltic, so much saltier. I also bought some surströming. I gave one can to @bos and partner on the way and had a delicious diner at their place. I had much less interesting things to say than last time, which made me better able to listen to @bos. So at least i know more about him now
which is nice.
I would like to have more community in my day to day life. One way would be to convince eremites to move into my house. One other way could be to make some effort to get more relationship with people that leave in the same house as me. Language is a barrier, but not only. My habit of going to my pc as soon as i get home might be a bigger one. One option would be to always spend one hour outside around fürabig.
Other option would be to put my pc in wintergarden.
I could strike a deal with the roomate who speaks the less french to teach help me get better at berntütsch.
Well back to the trip. After meeting bos, i went to a campsite in austria and met wit gf, one of her friend and 3yo daughter and husband.
Campsites are as expensive as hostel, you just trade the "comfort" of a bunk bed for the "privacy" of a tent.
There was an extended family of middle eastern immigrant. They were much more pleasant neighbour than young male middle eastern immigrant often are. Maybe its like young male boar that become a huge nuisance when separated from leading sow
They also had modest cars, which contrasted with what i usually see. Or maybe it's just that austria is better than france at not turning them into assholes (all my negative experiences have been with france residents).
Well, meeting with friends was nice. Relationship with gf is much better. Don't know what to attribute it to. She says it because we go to therapy. I don't know. All i know is that this therapy is forcing me to look for a job
After week end, i went to germany. Green meetup mentionned in other topic is 15 km away from where i left my waterdivide hike at, so i'm hiking this week to do a section of my hike, and go to the meetup. Walking to the meetup and stinking will surely grant me some green status points
There was a water divide trail in the area, which is uncommon in europe.
I talked to a few people. For some reason, it seems that slleping in the forest is a big deal to a lot of people.
I probably already said it, but it realky seems like there is a market for outdoor bootcamp that teach you to casually wild camp instead of yelling at you while you ramp in mud to compensate your insecurities.
I don't really understand why so many people just dont trial and error when they want to learn something.
Also, i found wild strawberries. They are really good. Since they are red, i never see an animal eating the, and the seed are intact when we shit them, i am quite convinced that humans might be one of their main propagator (or at least used to).
I wonder if their is a field of biology or anthropology that study the win win relationships beetween wildplants and preagricultural humans. But collecting wild berries really feels good, so there are probably a few of those relationships.
Also, the meet up will be held at a community farm that has been around for decades.
I know many here think that those project never work because they lack doers. But I know a few examples that do work.
