Varanasi after some very emotional 24 hours

wow the last 24 hours have been very emotional! we left woodstock yesterday (this time for good I think at least for this trip) which was as always very sad filled with tears. I already miss the butterfly Teryn, mummy and daddy at woodstock: Liav and Ofra and the rest of the few that are still there. But it was some great weeks and lots of good memories and I'm sure we'll meet again sometime! Anyways we got on the plane to Mumbai and from Mumbai to Delhi where we were suppose to meet Ivo and Kiyo at the train station to go to Varanasi. Not as easy as we thought it would be, Ivo's phone is broken, the train station consists of 19 platforms and is massive and he had the tickets, but we couldn't find him anywhere, we even tried to announce hes name on the speakers, but no Ivo and Kiyo. We asked so many people (including information desk) what train, when and from where it leaves but we only got about 10 different stories in return: there is no train to varanasi, its platform 9, it leaves at 11, it leaves at 10, you can only go close to varansi, you have to change the train etc etc. So being very frustrated and almost in tears we found the train and decided to jump on it hoping for Ivo to be on it (as he had the tickets). We searched the entire train and it took us 2,5 hours from when we got on the train to get seats, we had to pay more for not having tickets and still no Ivo. 12 hours later we arrived Varanasi and got surrounded within seconds by lots of Indians shouting rickshaw taxi cheap price! After some arguing we made a good deal and finally arrived at our lovely guest house where Indie was waiting for us. As soon as we saw him both Johanna and I burst into tears out of joy and sadness at the same time. It was so nice to see him again and we've been walking around in beautiful Varansi together all day. So far I love it, lots of little streets that looks like a maze, little cafes and chilling by the river. Its so shanti here, but at the same time you can go up to the main streets if you want to feel the noisy indian vibe. An Spanish guy we met on the train said that India is filled of love and hate, you love it you hate it, you love it, you hate it all the time over and over again and this fits exactly of how I feel about India too :)

Back to Ivo thou, we have emailed him and hoping for him to show up so hopefully very soon we'll see him again!