conquering paradise
So there were we. Sleepless, homeless, demotivated, slightly drunk. Since our adventurous search for an appartment lasted already for three days, Ilonka(Slo) and Casey(US) assisted us in contacting landlords and agencies. Might have been because they were such nice girls who wanted to make the world a better place, fighting the evil, helping the helpless. Or because Bojan and Matjaz were staying at their two-rooms-flat in Genova for five days now - together with Casey’s guests from the United States. But seriously - if you would ask me, I couldn’t tell why they did it.
Fact is, we eventually found a wonderful place to stay. Walking around to find our parked car somewhere south-east of Palma city centre, we just wanted to end this day’s search as we finally encountered our last resort. It appeared to us like The Ten Commandments must have appeared to the jewish during the Exodus. An orange-based sign, with big black letters, saying se alquila and giving away a handwritten telephone-number. Needless to say, we were totally stunned.
Immediately after C.P.R kicked in and Bojan recovered from this georgeous experience we called this guy - Juan-Carlos - met his wife later this evening and moved in the next day. We considered the terms and conditions more or less as irrelevant facts - as we couldn’t understand what this very nice and strongly haired spanish guy told us anyway - and concentrated on how to move our inflatable airmatrace in one of the apartment’s two(!) bedrooms. At that time it seemed considerably reasonable to take a two-room-apartment for 750euro for giving a home to three people, well aware of the fact that one of us three would most likely have to occupy either the living-room or the winter-garden for the time-being.
Since the winter-garden directly accessed to the terrase with a beautiful view to the beach, I didn’t have to do much of a consideration to know where to put up my camp. Even though there was obviously some effort to be put in this room to convert it from the former dining-”room” to my throbbing antrum of love, I quite excitingly accepted this challenge.
So definitely a new era seemed to dawn. We ultimately ended our rough and painful life on the palmesian streets and started to enjoy the comfortable cosiness of our very own home… waiting for the next adventure to come up… five guests for a week - arriving the next day.