I need to slow down. Seriously.

Who thinks after six months and three weeks I’m relaxed as can be should ask my feet. Or my back and shoulders. I need a massage…

I am mostly so tired right after breakfast I want to crawl back to bed….

I’ve been traveling too much and doing too many tourist sights lately. Not that it wasn’t fun.

But I crave the stability of being four to five weeks in the same place, hanging out, going swimming… and not running around.

Since Melbourne, I went to Hobart, Sydney, Auckland, drove 3000 km through New Zealand, ran through Tokyo and am now walking up and down Japan’s temples and shrines… Uff. The only little break was Auckland, but with three weeks it was too short.

Maybe I should have booked me a temple meditation or something. I will do a day trip to Kyoto, I’ll see Hiroshima, and hang out two more days in Tokyo before flying home and bringing the first circle to a close…

But I can’t wait for a month at the beach in Tel Aviv in June! I won’t do a-n-y-thing! And before that you’ll find me soaking in an Istanbul hamam.

I’ll keep that in mind for the last stops of the tour, through China, Thailand and India. I might be more settled than I thought. I can’t do everything all at once.