Hey there! In two hours from now, I will be sitting in the train to Charleroi where Ryanair is going to pick me up to bring me to Dublin in exchange for Euros. If everything goes smoothly, I will have plenty of time at this big and interesting Charleroi airport (hö hö), but would you trust Belgian public transportation? See, me neither! So I take one train earlier in order to avoid any stress since I am forcing myself to look at my trip as if it was holidays. I really need “Tapetenwechsel” as we would call it in German, some odd feeling of not being able to feel well in one’s 4 walls anymore. Especially after the tests, which went quite ok I think. Weather forecasts are bad to really bad for continental Europe in the next days, so hopefully the weather in Dublin will be the complete opposite. I really wanna see the ‘green’ exposed to phatt sunlight. Must be marvelous. Another thing radically removing barriers to travel nowadays is the Internet. I was really astonished to find myself with really ALL information I could possibly need for my journey in less than two hours. I even have a map of the arrival area in Dublin, and therefore know where the toilets are… for example ;). The website of the Belgian Railways turned out to be really informative as well. But they didn’t bother to put travel-related information like maintenance-work, which apparently is the no. 1 reason for late trains in Belgium, in languages other than french. Really handy. Apart from that, there is still one variable left, namely, whether they speak Dutch or English at the Visé train station, where I need to buy a combined, reduced ticket, including a roundtrip Visé - Charleroi and the bus transport to the airport. Nice, and only 22 Euros. — My suitcase is full, and full here means a level where I think I would not be troubled by the nice ladies at the boarding desk who will weigh my luggage. Last time we managed to trick them and save Alice a fortune for her suitcase was almost double the weight she was allowed to carry, but I am not sure if I can lift the tablet of the scale again without someone noticing. By the way, I tried this trick also in the supermarket yesterday and got 3 apples for the price of one. Drie halen, 1 betalen! Yes, this is the only effective means against price increases. — I am getting nervous here. Dunno why exactly. Simply a certain, let’s call it respect of air transport will always remain. I am not afraid of flying, surely not, but you can never be sure that everybody contributing to such a flight has done his/her homework, if you know what I mean. After all, you are in the air, and if shit happens, you can only blame Newton for inventing gravitation ;). — Anyways. I am really look forward to seeing Alice and having some nice days in Dublin with broadenig my horizon. Should I not return, you know, I love you all. — I will blog you upon return!