15th MAY 2025 – UPDATING how I am doing/coping.

What’s the oldest things you’re wearing today?

A pair of baggy, comfy slacks.
At home, it is Friday and I am not expecting any visitors at my doorstep for whom I would need to look *fashionable 😅 *
Having said that: it does not mean that I look untidy, sloppy, unkempt though. Not at all.

This is how I always look.
Properly attired here for a NINE and a half, deadly boring, most uncomfortable coach chair, overnight roadtrip: Fethiye to Ankara – Turkey. That in order to RENEW my Dutch passport at the Dutch Embassy/Consulate in Ankara.

Anyone reading this might want to commiserate reading the above, and that would be absolutely 💯 correct, justified too.

I was so more than on absolute 💯 😩 😭 pissed of about that issue, that I have not yet recovered from that entire GHASTLY experience.

On the other hand, however: I do have my NEW Dutch passport, I am good to GO, MOVE, and boy am I happy with it!

The FREEDOM to travel abroad of course is what that means. No (valid) passport as an expat living in Turkey is too ghastly a thought even.

Relishing that thought today, a dark, dreary, gloomy day, 15th of May 2025, in supposedly sunny 🌞 southern Turkey: at HOME: excluding the ugly world 🌎 my OLD COMFY BAGGY slacks are a comfort.