Belfast, Northern Ireland
Unfortunately, they needed to order a special part to fix the bike. Something I was aware of because my therapist told me is that the Kawasaki KLR 650 is a rare bike in Europe, because they have stricter emissions laws than us, so it actually wasn’t on the market in Europe and had to be imported. So parts often had to be imported as well. While I waited, I tutored a student for highly technical interview preparation most of the day and was able to support my living costs with the money.
I don’t remember how long this went on, it was either one week, two weeks, or more than two weeks. However long it was, there was a point where the hospitable Mark’s hospitality cracked and he asked when I was planning to leave. At some point shortly after that, he blew up at me for entering the laundry room, since he had insisted in doing my laundry and after a while it just didn’t feel right having someone do my laundry all the time so I went to do it myself. I immediately booked a bus to Dublin, without having a place to stay.