Autumn days: V is for vitality...

Since I moved to Iceland I was waiting for my first AIRWAVES festival having place always in November. I'd been so excited about it for so many months and finally some other things were more important during the Icelandic Airwaves week. I went to more then 30 concerts, still skipped some nice off-venues ones as I was spending more time with my boyfriend (unfortunately, already former one, as we had an argument the last day of the festival).

There was a kind of strange tension inside me. I didn't think at all about taking my camera with me to photograph artists on the stage this time.. I just couldn’t help it. And the magnetic storm was so intense on Wednesday when the festival started that I was feeling completely not myself. Just an emotional roller-coaster.

Intriguing person, man of renaissance, Flemish guy with some Italian roots, cheerful and witty, erudite in many fields, the same age as me, the same sensitiveness, many similar interests and dreams.. Still it wasn't enough to be happy together in the longer run. Important lesson in my life. Finally I understood that it wasn't my fault, for the first time I got that relieving insight.









 We went for a trip together one weekend in October, Vincent rented a car for 2 days. It was really nice adventure. We went to the places that I never been before. Not far away from Reykjavik though. On Sunday we invited to join us his close friends (that became my friends too), very nice Icelandic-Scottish couple.



 Especially Saturday trip and the bath in hot spring in wild nature was one of the unforgettable moments. Brownish-orange fields around, old and rusty changing room in the middle of nowhere. Few friendly tourists left soon after having bath and chat in the same tiny spring. Nobody around, only wild nature, endless fields and fantasy hills in the background. Just eternal silence.

 We'd spent a lot of time in the cinema and seen many films together as we had met for the first time just before Reykjavik International Film Festival started in September.




Maybe we will be friends one day as we have a few friends in common. Hopefully. And it's such a small town, so it's easy to bump into each other somewhere downtown. That's the way it is.


I will be missing our night walks in the freezing air, chats with friendly cats met on our way, cosy streets and houses full of hidden stories and the sensitiveness and care that I was getting from him. I am grateful for all the positive moments and experiences.

Now it's time to spend some time on my own. That's an excellent company, of course :)