Borders of Love 1. - October 2017
Imagine love
Imagine music
Imagine peace
'Imagine all the people...
sharing the world...'
It was 14 February 2010 night that Lobna and Robert (to be called lob&rob later on) met for the first time at Lonely Beach at Thailand. It was the Chinese New Year and accidentally Valentine Day too. Robert was travelling with his sister Sarah and both were saying at Lonely Beach for quite a bit. Robert was called between his friends Rock Star Rob. He wasn't a professional musician but he has a huge lover of Syd Barret, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Pink Floyd, The Door and a lot more of interesting information about the 60s & 70s music history and stories. Rob had a brand new black yamaha classic guitar that I would learn later that he was playing and signing with lyrics from nowhere once he was happy or drunk or angry or sad or tried or laying on a laylo… he basically play in each status he is in as if his word would come out from his guitar translated into his fingers and into his lyrics, as a way of expressing himself into the world instead of spending his time talking, other than than he would usually be silent and shy.
Lobna; myself, called Lob between my friends. I just arrived at Thailand one week before it. I was working at International Road Transport Union based in Switzerland for almost 4 years and I needed to take a long break. I left my job after my last project where I managed to organise a meeting between Arab Union and European Union to collaborate. I took a Lonely Planet with me decided to go to Thailand. I aways had Lonely Planet whenever I traveled and since I’m a 3rd world citizen I never tried to bother myself applying for visas for vacations. The world was big enough to explore and I was traveling to 1st and 2nd world since I had to because of my multiple jobs and my meeting I did so far.
Bangkonk was too crazy, too noisy, too crowd, for much of everything for my taste. I checked at Lonely Planet and found there is a great party at Lonely Beach! I backed First a bus for 2 hours then a fast -but absolutely not fast- 9 hours train followed by 5 hours by a car, 45 minutes at freeboot and finally 30 minutes by Tuk Tuk (a little seating thing can carry 4 people and their stuff with a tiny motorcycle) lastly arrived! I found a bungalow, took a shower and head to the party!
Robert and Sarah were already at the the party at Lonely Beach that night. The Beach was full of people from around the globe and everyone was dancing. It was probably the biggest party I have ever saw in my life. It was full with tattoos makers, glow in the darks painters, papers lights floating around in all colours, dragons made of colourful papers, Thai massage masters, fantastic food and fruit everywhere, drinks served in coconuts and buckets full of Thai whisky with eventually made the entire beach completely drunk!
Between all the crowd Sarah and me at some point started to dance on the stage were the musicians are. I do remember we did share our drink with her and her bother, rob, just before climbing of the stage, that rob was handsome and cool. We were trying to buy a drink with rob and Thai people got confused about out names lob and rob. The day in 2010 we stared to call us lob&rob until today.
At some point Sarah just pushed out of the stage and I fell down about 2 meters to the sand and rob has to come and help me to goto the hospital first to check if I had broken my ankle but lucky it wasn’t. We were then send to a Thai massage for a couple of days and not to be able to walk on that leg. It was late and rob has to help me walking to me bungalow back. We had a long night until early morning talking about music. After that lob&rob traveled for 6 months about Thailand and Cambodia. Sarah traveled with us for a while but later she left and we continued. We tried to go to Vietnam so we applied for a visa but my visa was rejected were rob visa was alright but Rob didn't go without me.
We continued to travel back into Thailand again. When we met in 2010 both of us were hurt bout making a family. Each of us had its our story. Rob has lost his mother just a few years ago and I never trusted a man referring to my alive but for me dead father. We never really talked about it until we get really completely drunk or if Sarah had told me before she had left us. So we had a simple plan that we agreed on without mentioning it. lob&rob had a plan, lob would plan next destination, both travel, find a bungalow, go swim, have sex and shower, lob take pictures, yoga, read and write while rob play and sing.
