Almost a year ago, I met my dear friend Karolina at the airport in Amsterdam. We had no flights booked, no backpacks packed – we just wanted to meet up again and the airport was a good meeting spot for several reasons: We both like travelling, being surrounded by travellers and both of us had to travel the same distance to get to this place. We got some food and drinks, sat down in one of the restaurants and started talking about this and that exchanged some belated birthday gifts and she surprised me with a wonderful puffin-towel. Not long into our conversation, I sensed a feeling of panic creeping over the airport and then it happened: people only a few metres away from us jumped out of their seats and started running, screaming, panicking. Karolina would not move, I got up, urged her to go with me. Her back was facing the scene so she didn’t see what I saw. Eventually, I got up and ran away. Without her.
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