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My time of freedom

October 2016 - February 2017
A 101-day adventure by Sophie Read more
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  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 1

    Welcome !

    October 30, 2016 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C

    Dear all of you
    I am traveling now since 3 month and already had lots lots of beautiful experiences.
    The live I am living is amazing i never felt so free and filled with wonder. Sometimes it just feels like I am in a big beautiful dream.
    Of course there are also bad experiences but that is life. Bad situation are important for me too so I have not any reason to complain myself!
    The only thing which bothers me is that I want to show you everything and I wish to kind of let you feel what I feel..
    So I had the idea to start a blog and to share my special live with you. I didn't know in which language I should write. German? French? No! I want all of my people understand it, so it will be in my basic english, hihi.
    I hope you'll have fun to read and look at my pictures and that I can send you a bit of my happiness to you. 🌞    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 2

    First stop: Cape Coral to relax&prepare

    October 31, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    I couldn't have had a better start for my trip.
    Tree weeks relaxing in my aunts & uncles house with swimmingpool & whirlpool. Totally luxury! So I got a good dose from "not care about anything" before being 100% responsible for myself. That was to charge my batteries 😉Every morning I got up when I wanted to. Sometimes the first thing I did was taking a fresh bath in the pool and enjoying the view on the mangroves.
    My aunt & uncle prepared the brunch and of course the coffee, even with a Swiss coffee machine! So I started every day relaxed and happy about this food and sun and heat.
    The days were as relaxing as the mornings. Sometimes a bit to relaxing because I had to plan my trip and to figure out how I want to book the flights, so where I want to go and how long. But honestly I could not do it. So after 2.5 weeks of emailing with a travel agency and speculating with my aunt I decided to book the flights on my own and to decide spontaneously where to go next.    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 9

    Short trip to Key West

    November 7, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C

    My beautiful hosts planned a trip to Key West. They told me it's a special place because it's the city which is on the most southern point of the USA.
    We got there with the car together with 2 friends. On the way it had beautiful views over protected natural places, indian villages, rivers and so on .. we made a short stop to see crocodiles, yeah! ;P
    Key west is a nice city. It has a lot of bars and shops and music and party people hihi.
    For me it is too touristic and I missed calm places like a nice beach or a park with some trees. But it has a really nice view over the sea you can see some small islands and we had a really beautiful sunset with live music on the back. A "rastaman" who was just completing the ambience.
    We drunk well in the evenings. I remarked that I drink a lot more with my aunt & my uncle & friends of them than with my friends in Switzerland, but it was much fun! Thanks for that guys! Haha
    So yeah now I can say I was on this most southern city. Uhlala chocolat how special! ;-)    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 19

    Melanie, my new camera and the snowman

    November 17, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C

    As I put a picture on facebook, telling where I am my old schoolfriend wrote me that she'll be soon nearby!
    So we could arrange to meet each other and go on a canoe trip. It was really nice to meet her we had a lot to tell from our past year and what we are going to do because she's also traveling since a while. We had an interesting afternoon and we saw a snowman! It was really weird to see that when we are sweating like that haha!
    Yeah and I show you my first really good pictures I made with my new camera. It makes a lot of fun and from now on the pictures are more professional. ;-)    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 21

    Surprising Miami

    November 19, 2016 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C

    Yes. Cityhater Sophie went for 2 nights to Miami. It wasn't really planned. But how I wanted to give the possibility to my hosts to enjoy the last days in privacy I left Cape Coral earlier and went to Miami. I expected nothing from Miami and thought I will just wait till I can catch my flight to Cuba.
    But hey, I had a really nice time there! As I arrived at the hostel I met Yevgenij. We went out to get some asian food and beers and took it to the beach. As we walked there I just opened my beer. Yevgenij said, hey what are you doing you can't do that! I was suprised and then I remembered that ah yes it's forbidden to drink alcohol on the streets. One of these weird laws from humans ..
    but we had a really good time and I was happy to found such a nice person already on my first day alone on my travel. 🙃
    The next day I spent alone and enjoyed my new camera and my freedom. And the best thing; I met Melanie again! We were really happy about that and of course we went out for the night. I mean Miami is a party city! :D    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 23

    Let's go to Cuba!

    November 21, 2016 in El Salvador ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

    So after the night in Miami, my travel to Cuba started with a hangover but also with a lot of curiosity and motivation!
    But like a lot of you already rode my mail, the travel wasn't easy at all! I lost a lot of money because of stupid situations.
    I had to change the airplane at San Salvador and wait over night. As I thought that I can spend the night at the airport I hadn't booked any Hotel. When I arrived there they obliged me to get out the airport and go to the airport hotel for 80 Dollars per night! Never I would pay that. So at the end I got a hotel for 20 Dollars because a guy heard my discussion with the airport people and helped me to find a cheaper one.
    As i got out the airport I was really scared. It had about 50 people standing next before the exit from the airport waiting for someone. They stared at me what I unterstand but as everybody said El Salvador is really really dangerous I was hardly scared. Now after 3 months of travel I would not be as scared as at my beginning.
    But everything went alright and I passed a short but cozy night in this hostel anywhere in San Salvador.
    But the next day it continued and I could not buy the tourist card for Cuba as thought at the airport for 20$ because they had no more left!! So I had to buy it at the airport in Cuba for 80$! Yeah but that's always better than not to have the possibility to fly to Cuba. ;-)    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 25

    Havana & first tattoo

    November 23, 2016 in Cuba ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C

    The first day in Havana was hard. I didn't know how safe the city is and was scared to really go discovering the city.
    But after I changed from my first casa in a backpacker hostel it got better. I met Jason and Winnie and we went together to the old Havana, which is beautiful but really touristic.
    But I saw these cute kids playing baseball with so much fun and energy. As they saw that I took pictures from them, they started to pose and to show me how good they are! Haha
    From my bed in the Hostel I had a view over Havana city, that was nice! :D
    Aaand I finally did my first tattoo! First I wanted to do a sun but the day I went to the "tattooer" was the day after my birthday. So I decided spontaneously to make a birthday memory which should be drawn easy like a kid would draw it. (Or me :P) and ehm jep, as you see, the place where I made it wasn't reaally professional .. hehehe    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 26

    My birthday

    November 24, 2016 in Cuba ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C

    As i woke up the morning of my birthday I knew I have to go at the beach. So many times in the past I dreamed of a birthday like this.
    So I made myself a present and paid a lot for a cool odtimer taxi to drive for 40 minutes to the beach. Wow it was totally worth it this beach is amazing!
    I bought some Pringels and searched a cozy place. After 1 hour I refound myself on a deck chair with a free Cocktail in my hand. 😎
    In a funny mood I went back to the hostel and met the other guys. We went out to get a nice dinner.
    As we finished our meal, the waiter turned suddenly the light off and the people began to sing happy birthday and schwupps I had a cake with a candle in front of me. How cute the girl from the hostel asked if they could do this for me. Hihi
    We all said we will go partying after but as we were all so full and tired we just got back in the hostel and enjoyed our nice beds. 😋    Read more

  • Sophie DreierMy time of freedom
    Day 32

    Spanish in Trinidad

    November 30, 2016 in Cuba ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C

    I had such a great time at Trinidad!
    The family where I was hosted was perfect. Mommy, Daddy and two beautiful girls, 1 and 3 years old. At the beginning it was hard to have conversations together, but Quirin from Switzerland helped me out. ( After 3 days living in the same family we figured out that we know each other from the childhood!!😂)
    It was impressive to experince how different the mothers treat their children. There is so much more energy. They can share so much love that they almost eat each other but on the other side it's normal to give a decent clab on the ass. These children have to be strong and independent a lot earlier than I and a lot of others in our cultur.

    The food I got was a lot and made with much love. Every day a big breakfast and a big dinner. Really nice, but after 2 weeks eating every day rice and beans my stomach got bigger and bigger haha! But I enjoyed to get the meal prepared like from mama at home. 😌
    The school was hard but super useful! I had private lessons with a wonderful older cuban women. She didn't speak english, so every explination was in spanish. Like that I learned already a lot.
    After 2 weeks I began to speak with the young "trinidadianers" and made some friends.
    I took as well salsa lessons which where 3 hours professional course and then just dancing in the clubs, with 4 salsa teachers. 💃🏽
    So I was quite included in the life of the locals and enjoyed this different culture a lot.    Read more

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