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Since I was a kid I have been writing stories. Narratives about fictional characters in made-ups worlds, within the infinite realm of my fantasies. Now I write about my real life adventures, about the results of my yearning to see as much of the world as I can possibly combine with a career and regularly seeing friends and family. These stories are primarily a recollection of my own memories, as I am keen to preserve as many details of my foreign adventures as possible, lest the images I try to recall years later inevitably become blurred. As a positive externality, the result may be a pleasant read for the interested outsider. I hope you will enjoy my blog.

Tony Grifone

Saturday, 23 November 2013

Vasiliki

In New Delhi we lived across the road from each other, in The Netherlands we lived in the same student house, and my apartment in London was a 10 minute bike ride away from hers. Apart from these coincidental but most appreciated months that our international routes overlapped, she spent some time in her native Greece whereas I briefly called myself an expat in China and now live in Ireland. Travel-wise our independent itineraries crisscross Europe in an apparently random and disorganised figure, coincidentally conjoining only to revert shortly afterwards to diverging dotted lines on a map. Last Sunday was one of those cherished moments that we got to catch up on what must have been at least half a year of absence. I loved the scene: a 5 minute stroll from Embankment, where she travelled my tube and I cycled to by Boris bike, in a snug red painted coffee house, right next to the window so that London’s metropolitan vibe was always right there but distanced enough not to interrupt our conversation. 2 hours of intense catching up, sharing stories of work, life, new loves and long forgotten memories, only to end when I had to catch my plane back home and she needed to go back to the bunch of friends she had over. Vasiliki, it was yet again a true pleasure seeing you, and I already look forward to our next time. Borders and distances do nothing to true friendships if not only enhancing them.

(photo below: London tube, autumn 2012)

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