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De China lumix

After our bye bye Ámsterdam, we took all the stuff, we put it in the car, still now I dont’ know how we got it, and… next stop: Barcelona! It was 17 hours driving, at the begining we thought in do a stop in somewhere, but the feeling to see our people was stronger. Finally we got Barcelona, we open up the windows and we breathed our Barcelona, my good.. how I love this sensation, it is the mediterranea breeze, a combination of plants, pollution, humidity, asphalt,.. definetly I love it, that’s means I am at home…

Memories, dinners, burocracy, familiar lunches, walking arround  my dear Barcelona… It is funny to see, how everythning looks the same alter  more than 1 and a half year, but.. I don’t know.. it looks diferent at the same time. Homesickness and memories comes in my mind as a mirages, I can see myself in my 17s, how fun it was, my afternoons and evenings in the park, weekends in the friend’s house,  Poble Nou, Clot, La Verneda, and all the subway stops of Barcelona,   birthday parties, bye bye parties, welcome parties, our first date,  our first house in Pare Secchi street,… too many feelings we leave us amazed.
And the days went by, and we still were in Barcelona. I gave up smoking, no job, without home, well spending the days between parents, mama and sister's house, and the world trip in front of us…
The visa…yes, the visas… We got the new passports, the visa for China done, and the 3 months tourist visa for Australia, but being cautious be decide to get the 6 months tourist visa. Ok, why? Because it supposed that we has a company, which had to help us to find and intership, house, visas,.. and everything before to get Australia, but it never happens…So that’s why we decided to get the 6 months visa and there, we will see. So, we called the Australian Embassy in Madrid and they suggest us to send the passports to Madrid and in two days the visas would be done. All right, then we went to the post office and we bought the mail faster and safer, and we send our passports :S. Before 4 days to our planned take off day, we called to the embassy and they said that the visas are done he sent the passports back. Perfect!that means in 24 hours ours passport will be back home. Ok, let’s go top the airport and buy the tickets , then. DONE: BCN/LND (4days), LND/Shanghay (9 days), Shanghay/tokio (6 days), Tokio/Singapore(5 days),  Singapore/Sydney,,,, and after will see, but we planned LA, las Vegas and New York, and  go back home.
Ok, in the next two days we kept without passports,
-48 hours, still now, I don’t know how we could sleep, and the next day,-39 hours, in the morning we got to get contact with the embassy, and they said that they had any idea about where are our passports…  Sorry (¡*>grrgr*^/9)…WHAT! And now…. SHIT!
The next 37 hours were the worst. Going from a post office to another, asking for any reference that they didn’t have, trying to get contact with the truckers of the post, talking with the managers of the post office from Barcelona and Madrid, embassy,… completly crazy. Finally we found out, that the man of the embassy didn’t sent the passporst the day that we called, he just put the passports in the sending-box of his office…. And they only  send packets once a week, that’s mean that our passports left Madrid… that morning!!! SHIT!!Ok, exist a small posibility that ours passports will get Barcelona tomorrow morning or afternoon, and our fly take-off  tomorrow evening… to much stress!!
But it didn’t happens during the morning, but still we had the afternoon-evening, so trying untill the last oportunity, Vanessa is going by car with all the suitcases, to the airport, thanks to Vili who drives. And I stay in the main post office of Barcelona waiting the truck, with Nados (other friend) and his super-moto. If the passports get the post office we would go the airport by moto, the faster way. The minuts were runing and the truck… didn’t come. So I called Vanessa to come back home with the suitcases :__(
Of course the passports could get Barcelona in any time, so maybe we could take the fly the next day, but we had enough time, so we decide to change the fly, skip London and go directly to Shanghay, in 3 days. I left the post office, but before I gave ours phone numbers to all the main  post-offices of Barcelona, and they would call me at anytime, when teh truck get Barcelona.
Sick after everything and frustrated, so we tried everything without succesfull, we went to have a dinner and to drink something with the accomplices of the day, Sir Nados, with the moto, and Sir Vili, with the car, plus Zeni, another friend. In the meanwhile we made time, wating the call from the post office. With all the stress… you can believe how drunk I got… I have some flashes about the night..hehehe!!

De JasVan blog

Next morning when I wake up…. The passports where at home!!!They call us at 3.30 in the  morning, just when we went back to home, point that I couldn’t remember and Vanessa told me the details… MY GOD! WHAT 24 HOURS!!!
Well, now yes, we got  everything :D. And you know the funniest thing? We took the right decisión changing the flyes, because the weather in the north of Europe was terrible, the snow closed all the airports from London and some of Europe! So even with the passports we could get London! Resides we could see the sister, Judit, who was in Thayland for a month and she had to back in 2 days. So, I know it sound ironic, but at the end the things didn’t were so bad, don’t you think?