Friday, September 26, 2008

Travel to Austria and then back with Lea and Spektral

I managed to escape the clutches of the evil Munich and was soon enroute to the Austrian countryside.But not before I got searched by the reputedly over-fussy southern German cops. A big smile on my face i commented it would be nice of them to chase some real criminals to which they replied that they doubted they could. Soon their brand-new unmarked VW whisked them away surely on the way to catch out someone else who looked different and acted differently to the norm.
I eventually got to the frontier near Salzburg and there i stood trying different spots for a good four hours, my patience wearing thin as the hours progressed and the day grew darker and colder. I eventually engaged a couple of farmers who i encouraged to take me to near Graz where they said they were staying. This turned out to be 200km from Graz and the petrol station they were to leave me at was a deserted isle of light in the midst of dark trees lining the Alpine foothills. I found some food to eat and then searched out what felt like a quiet place sandwiched between a railway and a river. Of course it was all extremely quiet as i set up and it wasnt until i settled and had just pulled up my sleeping bag when suddenly i hear a hooting and feel electricity running through my feet just before a heavy cargo train speeds noisily by. I struggled the rest of the night through the continuous sporadic bouts of speeding trains, like a prisoner of war awaiting his periodical moment of torture with grudgingly exhausting acceptance.
The next day i awake, walk around, take soame pics and then walk over to the supermarket just when some guy calls me over and offers to take me to graz after seeing the sign i was grasping. If only things were always this easy!!! I arrive in graz after an interesting chat with my croatian host. Soon i am back in spektral and then meeting lea and life is good. The sun shone for the next three days as life seemed good. Walking and talking with lea was a glee as always though she looked more distant than other times and Flo was different. New friendships and cool times followed and i cant complain that here in Graz life was good with the Spektral alternative centre being the key to a new community.

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