Departures – Budapest

“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”

Soren Kierkegaard

I wake up and my brain is disheveled. I am struggling to focus on the simplest of tasks.

Shell gets me sorted and we head to Zërgë Coffeeshop for breakfast.

Not a single cloud in the sky, a perfect blue.

There are Israeli flags all along the Széchenyi Bridge.

Zërgë Coffeeshop is quiet. We ordered our usual and talked about everything except Dubai.

I am still not quite coherent in the brain region.

We head back to the apartment to pack and book our ride to the airport.

“It’s the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: ‘Good-bye.”

Kurt Vonnegut