In my first trip to Europe, I found my soulmate ❤️
By: Margarita Neunaber
Tags: Europe, Longdistancerelationship, Traveling Alone, Soulmates, Long Distance

Back in the hostel, my roommates planned a night out with everyone, I joined them. We went to a bar were I continued my conversation with the German guy, ok, I will give him a name now, Chris, short for Christian. I remember that the group was making fun of the British girl, for apparently killing a fish in the lake, while paddling, I found it funny because that fish even had a name, Jimmy, which happened to be the name of one of my exes, who at some point in my life, I wish I had smacked him on the head with a paddle haha, just joking.

We didn’t talk so much, we were too many of us, we were supposed to go dancing, but nobody wanted to pay so much for the entry, I didn’t mind, but I guess as backpackers they wanted to save money. We ended up at a pub, most went back to the hostel, my roommates stayed at the pub, so I thought I stay with them, the German couple, which were actually not a couple but, it was Chris and his sister, who had dragged him to a weekend in Madrid, she was studying Spanish at the time. They had also decided to go back to the hostel, I clearly remember this scene in my head. Me standing in a very short silver dress, with my very flat ironed hair and full of make up, saying goodbye to them, I felt a void in my chest, until this day I don’t even know why. I could have walked with them back to the hostel, I needed to leave to the airport in a few hours, but I stayed at the pub, which I left after a few minutes due to the indoor smoking, yuck. I walked back to the hostel in my very skimpy dress, alone.

Picture from a one year anniversary book Christian gifted to me.

I became friends in Facebook with my roommates from the hostel, and someone posted pictures of Madrid, and also mentioned Jimmy again so I LOL, Chris added me as his friend and from that day on we chatted everyday, then we started Skyping almost daily, with six hours difference it was difficult but even during my lunch breaks, I would just sit at my desk to talk to him, we talked for long hours, there were many sleepless nights, I felt very attracted to him, his eyes, his smile, his positive attitude towards life, made me fall in love with him, digitally, but since he was six years younger, I did not think, it would work out, plus we lived far away. Well after a month, we both said we loved each other, and two months after that, I was not gonna sit around, we were desperate to see each other, I took a very expensive five day vacation to Germany for my birthday to meet him and to confirm what we had was real, and it was, three months later he visited me and met my family and asked if instead of moving to Barcelona I wanted to move in with him, nine months later, I was moving in with Chris and bringing my cat, Gomita together with me, I had never even lived with any of my boyfriends before, but here I was moving to another country for love.

11 years later and after many trips around the world together, we are now married, we have two beautiful children, Emma (2) and Lucas (4.5). I will continue writing this blog to share all of our unforgettable travel experiences, before kids and after, because we never stopped traveling…we probably never will.