It’s no secret that this winter has been a tough one, and I feel like I have complained my fair share about it in this blog… but I guess I am about to do it some more. I have struggled with anxiety for some years now (arguably since my childhood, but we won’t cite my…
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I’ve been feeling rather nostalgic lately. Enjoying the memories of days past, because looking forward to the days ahead feels impossible. Planning little things to break down the months and the never ending strand of working days used to be my most efficient tool to make myself happy (or, in the winter, to simply keep…
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I don’t know if I mentioned it in here, but on the 29th of February, before the pandemic hit Europe and our lives took a bit of a hit, Fletcher and I travelled to Cancún for my birthday, and it was one of my favourite trips ever. We were there during my birthday, and I…
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Last Friday Fletcher and I took a break from the family festivities and headed to Segovia with my mum’s car. It was sunny and warm and I was happy because Fletcher was driving and I was just giving directions. – On the next one go up.– Up where?– Up, up! That’s down (points left) and…
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The original plan back in April was that I was going to upload one of these every month… Now, considering I rarely post more than four posts per month on here, that would mean that every fourth post would be a gratitude journal, and I don’t know about you, but that is a bit too…
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Last time in Vienna I was 19. I was backpacking through Europe with 5 friends, and we were staying in the cheapest hostels we could find and eating bad deli meat sandwiches day in and day out. I believe we visited 8 cities on that trip, so places blend together in my mind and the…
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We’ve been in Munich for almost two years, and during that entire time I have heard myself enumerate the number of things I don’t like about the city time after time. “It’s too rich, too small, too clean, too traditional, too…” However, when contemplating living somewhere else I find that I can come up with…
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This week has been my first week at a new job, and after a very slow two months in my last position, and month of holiday in between jobs I am finding myself slightly overwhelmed. I forgot what it feels like to always have a couple of unread emails in your inbox that you just…
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