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zl called!
i have got to find a way somehow to visit him in moscow. hopefully next year?

only yesterday did i realise how much i miss him. he's a pretty special childhood friend.

through the years our lives have become extremely separate and we hardly have any mutual friends or even acquaintances. we may be miles apart now, and in the past we've gone for months without any contact at all with each other.

but each time, all it takes is a phone call and we just keep picking up where we left off.

it's just one of those rare friendships in which you don't actually do anything together or for each other, like hang out or help each other with trivial stuff - in that sense we're oddly indepedent of one another - but still know deep down inside that whatever happens, you'll be friends for life.

because the innocence and purity of childhood under which the friendship was formed is so incredibly binding.

i don't really know how to put this in words properly.

this may sound cheesy but i guess i could put it this way: if there comes a day when friends desert me and i've only one friend left in the entire world,

i'm willing to bet that it would be him.

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looked through my scotland trip itinery and realised that it is potentially a logistical landmine.

i've tried to squeeze in as many destinations as is reasonably possible, and it will take a clear mind to reconcile my bus schedule with the hostels' earliest check-in/latest check-out times, plus how long it takes to visit xyz, so that i won't miss the bus etc.

glad to get out of london just for a week++ though. i think this is the longest i've been in the city, without actually getting beyond zone 5!!