It really has started

Well, here I am on the 22.00 to Manningtree. The next two months have taken ages to prepare and now I can’t stop grinning. Two months without work. Two months with adventure. All this week I have wanted time to slowdown, even wished this day would not come but it has and I am chuffed to bits. This time tomorrow I will be sitting in a bar in southern Spain. Right now am on an East Anglia train. I never thought I would be starting my journey in Essex, but wonders will never cease…

There’s a guy opposite me taking loads of selfies. On the train. Smiling into his phone, tilting his head, checking, deleting, reframing, resmiling, resulting…. why do people do that in public? Should I offer to take his photo for him? People don’t do that anymore – “would you mind taking a photo of me and my friend in front of the Taj Mahal?” We had to speak to strangers – and they were always more than willing! I even remember a group of Indian tourists at Fatehpur Sikri edging closer to me and my brothers, and dad, and wanting us to appear in their photos. I loved it! They had the memory of meeting us and we have the memory of being in their holiday snaps – never to meet again and no more than a hello and a nod between us. 

The only thing that selfies have going for them is the potential to bomb other people’s selfies. The best one I did was at the Globe – the two boys loved it and then wanted me to pose with them. We recently got photo-bombed by an armed patrol officer when cycling on a charity ride in London – that was pretty cool.  Am hoping to add to my photo bomb album over the next two months – and if successful will share the results. 

So, rather than Eat Pray Love, my sabbatical will be Eat, Eat, Pray (that the yoga retreat will counteract the Eat, Eat). I feel like I am the luckiest person alive.

I hope to blog a bit. If it gets tedious, I apologise in advance. We are just pulling into Chelmsford, seems like an appropriate place to stop writing and my battery is running low.  

Hasta luego! Sayonara! Namaste!