I was carrying a pack of paper towels back to my apartment. I set them down to reorganize the things in my arms and when I turned around there was a beast on my towels. I do not own or recognize the beast.
The beast wailed at me until I was forced to caress it.
Update:
The beast returned. It sat on my roommates bag and refused to move it’s form. The beast was content with being carried like a palanquin for roughly a block before dismounting into a nearby hedge on its beastly businesses.
My host in Dresden recommended that I go hiking in the Sächsische Schweiz, this nice region about 40 train-minutes from Dresden. I wasn’t sure, for I had planned to hitchhike to Chemnitz on the same day and I had arranged with my CS host in to arrive there before dinner… but hey it was so worth going! The Bastei bridge was indeed cramped with visitors (Czech and Germans mostly), but still really worth visiting!
(Also hitchhiking was great: waited about 10 minutes and got a straight ride to Chemnitz from a woman and her child Paula - the first time I got a ride with children btw)
(I also found the energy to explore Chemnitz and its modernist architecture in the evening, my muscles were a bit sore after hiking and hitchhiking, but I’m so full of energy when I travel, whereas I’m always tired and lazy when I’m at home, idk)
I was quite lucky and got an almost direct ride with a kind truck driver. However we spent ages at the Serbian/Bulgarian border, also because trucks have to go through many more controls than normal cars (after passport check they also weighed and x-rayed our cargo). The driver dropped me in the outskirts of Sofia where I jumped on a random bus and managed to reach a metro station before sunset (picture one). Then I took the underground to my friend’s neighbourhood and tried to reach her flat but I got lost in the plattenbauten maze (picture 2).
It’s funny to think that it was easier to hitchhike from one country to another and use a new public transport system than to find the right flat in a socialist neighbourhood.
