Czech and German explore the world

Last year, we went with kids (6 and 9 years) for 110 km hike in Lapland – Kungsladen and it was the best vacations I ever had with kids. This year, we were doubting if we can at all make a multi-day hike as we have additional 7kg+7 kg luggage which has legs but is still not able to use them for carrying his body weight. And then it happened without any big planning, that we appeared in the middle of GR20 on Corsica. How it was on Corsica? And how we made it, that we could make at all multiday hike with this time 3 kids (5 months, 7 years and 9 years)? Some highlights and disclaimers:  We did only 3 days of the whole GR 20 - that was 2 days more than we expected 😊.  Hiking with kids was great and it was again a great experience.  Sleeping in one tent with 3 kids is a challenge, but it is fine if you do not have a sleeping mat which makes terrible noise whenever the kid moves on it.  Taking a baby for a hike is a great choice. Whenever you are sweating too ...

Desperateness. That is the feeling that the best describes my today feelings after we left The Ministry of the Interior, Department of Asylum and Migration Policy. This is an Exit game which I still did not beat and seems unbeatable for me. Standing pregnant in front of the doors for half an hour in the cold, so that we will be among first 30 people and having a chance to at least join my meeting at work at 10 AM, was bad enough. But I had still a hope, that this time, we will finally go through and get the certificate of temporal residency for Jan. Last time, it did not work. Not only that we were in the wrong office which does not cover Prague 5 and we were not able to online find out which form we should actually fill in, but because we also found out that Jan has to first go within a month after moving in to the police department where he gets a small paper allowing him to stay here for a longer period of time. This time, it did not work as well. We thought we had all documents, bu...

My life never settled, my life never slowed down too much, but whenever things are getting a bit calmer, some new challenge appears to fill that space and move me forward. Meeting my partner in Sweden was one of these occasions. After months when I didn't have time to sit down, when I didn't do anything else than solving my immediate troubles, I went for a week to Sweden to a winter school. I had terrible flu, even had to pay a taxi to get to the airport, because I honestly couldn't walk with my backpack more than few meters. But I knew that I have to go. Leaving my kids with my parents at home, I had to do something else for few days than thinking about my desperateness. And in that state I came to Sweden, slowly finding out who I used to be, starting to enjoy seconds and moments, walks and talks and forgetting about everything which was left for that week behind me. Uncovering that under mum is still a human with thoughts, wishes, hobbies and most importantly, someone, ...

Rushing from one place to another, from one attraction to another, one visit aft er another. I feel so overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by sensations which I am not able to process, by duties, by meetings. Like if the whole world would be about rushing from one thing to another so you never get a small bit of time to actually think, to actually feel, to let the experiences move you forward. And I know that my kids feel the same. Full of sensations, not able to actually sit and process what they are experiencing. Not having time to look forward for things which they will do, because their time is so much filled. In this mood and time we start to think about how we will spend our summer vacations. We all want to enjoy them, I know that I should be able to enjoy just staying in Czech republic somewhere by a lake in a tent, but it does not fully work for me (Germans call it Fernweh). I know that I would like to switch off this instant flow of inputs and that I want for kids something where the...