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Trying to build international relationship, trying to travel with small baby, trying to travel with another small baby, hitch-hiking on the yachts at the end of the world with two of them, trying to help as many refugees in Berlin as possible, trying to talk to those, who are very far from us, trying to do something by organising Civil March For Aleppo. The machine of our friends and friends of the friends has started, hundreds of advices and flat announcements were coming to me every day, I went to visit few schools and few flats and… after few days we moved to an absolutely lovely apartment, in a nice district, 10 minutes from our school and just on the metro line, bringing me in 10 minutes to my office. But the most important in this crazy time of new job, new country and new school is – those two girls are happy. We will still show you our flat, we will tell you all about the neighbourhood (we went for a little trip, to draw our own map yesterday: met a lot of nice people and little corners), and for sure we will be reporting about discovering Budapest and Hungary too!

If you book your hotel in advanced – you will never end up sleeping between some random people. If you expose yourself only to the things you already know – you won’t move further. I was dreaming about those singing, dancing and jumping people, I had a feeling that they showed me completely different dimension of life. And we also couldn’t stop discussing: how resistant one has to be to fight with the gravity in so amazing way, how creative one has to be that in his head those kind of ideas come up?

And even if we know that last year at that time, there was 4000 people coming every day, each of those 150 is this facing life and dead. most of the pictures by Janusz Ratecki or Thomas Alboth We decided for plan B: to get as close to Syria as possible, from the other side, from Lebanon. “Goshhh, I know the language, I have free time, I could be so useful… Somebody wished to march faster, somebody slower, somebody preferred that one, somebody would like to risk more, somebody would like to sleep next to this person or that.

It’s a big, 57-metre-long island with all a traveller in an exotic country might need: crazy animals (whales and sharks), superbeautiful beaches (kilometres and kilometres), strong waves and reefs (for surfing and diving), old stories (hell a lot of pirates have lived there), a lot of real life (still wildness and lovely corners), a nice way to get to the places (by renting a bike or a motorbike) and still wilder and even more heavenly little islands (like our favourite Ile aux Nattes! ). Arriving to Saint Marie, it’s probably good to have fixed place to sleep in advance, since the island is big, distances between the hotels are long and places are often booked early in advance. We decided to go north first and have a little luxury time: a bungalow hotel with a beautiful beach view, a good restaurant (hotel “La Crique”) and an own little whale watching boat. So we made our simple dinner (being watched all the time) and divide it between 6 portions: for 4 of us plus for the hungry guys watching us: the gardener and the cooking lady (cooking for the people, who paid for it, while renting a bungalow).