Crazy people

Crazy people are the best type of people. I don't mean people who have something wrong with their mind. I just mean people who are interesting, laid-back and who are up for almost everything.

I've mostly been hanging out with these people over the past week. I left my last blog hanging as I got on a train with the destination of Altenburg airport. I'm pleased to report that everything went smoothly and I was able to fly to London, something I spontaneously decided to do while I was in Belgium.

I was there to visit Alex, the girl who I spent a few days with after that long hitch-hike I wrote about. This time, it was a 5-day visit to her new apartment in London. She's just started studying photography, but doesn't let this get in the way of her being a crazy person for a living.

I spent these five days with Alex and her fellow crazy friends. There are her two room-mates, David and the Polish guy whose name we can't pronounce. There is her future room-mate Joe, a CouchSurfer from Singapore called Jas, and a few people I talked to at a CouchSurfing meeting. It's so easy to get on with this kind of people. The world should be full of them.

They introduced me to the wonderful world of independent cinema.

I accomplished something the other day.

I took a bus from London to Amsterdam and I managed to sleep for maybe 9 of the 12 hours that made up the journey. Stoked. I arrived in Amsterdam not tired at all, and was soon surrounded by more crazy people. I CouchSurfed with a girl called Kayley who's a Malaysian with an Australian accent, and her room-mate Natalie. Jack also came up from Belgium to apparently start living and working in Amsterdam. He stayed with us as well. There were also two more crazy CouchSurfers in the place. Over the two days I spent there, we had some great times. Funnily enough, most of our conversations ended up being about bicycles and weed.

Today I used a fresh new Eurail pass to spend around 11 hours on trains that took me from Amsterdam through Germany and all the way to Vienna, Austria. This marks the beginning of a two-ish-week hitch-hiking trip with Maria, my friend from Dresden. A slight hiccup in our trip is that Maria failed to hitch-hike to Vienna from Prague today, and is spending the night in Brno instead. Hopefully we will meet up in Graz tomorrow.

Crazy times ahead.