Good to have you back! :) My sister lives abroad (though not as far as you do from yours) and I be that she experiences something similar but to a lesser extent when she comes back.

You passed through some interesting places, like the canal locks, the church with its graves and the clocktower. Still, the weirdest thing of all was this car covered in overgrowth. Kind of surreal, especially with the shot of shiny mall just a few scrolls away.