Meet somewhere
Since already 2,5 years, the world turned upside down. The morning when devastating news spread across the globe I will remember forever. This was one of the most terrifying hours when nobody knew what would happen next. Will we be able to see our parents? Will we be able to call them?
Since then we couldn’t visit home. And we meet with our close people “somewhere”. This year, somewhere was Turkey, Antalya.
I like contrast, and this time, the day was as contrasting as possible. From cold, rainy Düsseldorf morning to hot and sunny Antalya evening. From +15ºC to +35ºC. Experiencing such changes makes you think about how strongly we depend on our comfort climate zone. This 20ºC temperature change feels like going from the Pole to the Equator. Because that’s what we got used to. Not more.
All inclusive
Of course, we chose the “All-inclusive” type of hotel out of the good thoughts. More time to talk and enjoy time together, and less time thinking about where to get lunch or dinner. This type of hotel I think changes people over time. This is counterintuitive, but some people actually not relaxing, instead for some reason still very concentrated and craving to get everything like there is a limited amount of something there (it is not). But maybe it is just me who went to full hibernation and tried to slow down the time as much as possible.
This time I took only a film camera with 2 films: Vision3 250D for daylight and Fuji 400. All photos are mixed in this post. But it feels like hot temperatures and sun roasted Vision3 well enough so it has more pale colors. Although I must say they are pretty accurate. It is just that I never took off my sunglasses there, but during those times when I was cleaning them, everything looked pretty the same as in these pictures. Maybe we got used not only to the comfort but also to bending the vision so reality starts to look artificial when we face it?
Space
Overall, 9 days went quick and smoothly. Of course, I wanted to make them longer. And the universe heard. On the last day, many people in the hotel catch some weird type of cold. And the line from beer quickly switched to tea and coffee. It wasn’t too bad, but still. Somehow it prolonged time and it felt less typical so, more memories and more challenges were solved together.
Our hotel, albeit compact, had a pretty good separation of queues and somehow manageable space for everyone. At least for the time of peak heat season when you just don’t want to move much. Maybe next time a better idea would be to meet somewhere where it is less hot.
The next photo is a special one. I was looking from the staircase windows on that bus every day and was wondering, why does it always stop here for a couple of hours? Every day. It looks like the usual town bus, but why here? I still don’t know. But it looks to be happy escaping the exhausting and intense traffic of the resort area and just looking at one of the last empty spaces in that town. Next year, probably, there will be another hotel, another all-inclusive full of hurrying people who try to get all 150% of their vacation time. But now there is peace. Crazy hot, no idea how he can stay there for so long. But peace, almost without noise from other hotels.
Time
It never stops. There is always that “perfect moment” that you will be waiting for so long, but when it comes, you juststop thinking about it, and enjoy it, it passes so quick. And here you are. Saying “Goodbyes” and “See each other somewhere next time soon“. And again, no one knows where somewhere is and when soon is.
Echo 