Been quite tardy about updating this blog for a while, non-stop travels over the weekends and glorious daylight over the weekdays are to blame.
Since Egypt in early Jan, I've been hopping about (in no particular order):
- Barcelona - ostensibly a cultural trip to check out Picasso and Gaudi but in reality more of a shopping trip for hip spanish clothes
- Andalusia (Seville, Cordoba, Granada) - Spain again, can't get enough of their paella and very cool sites like the Mezquita and Alhambra, loved the local flamenco performance we caught. Did I mention the paella?
- Shannon, Ireland - driving trip over a weekend and when I say driving, I mean full on driving - we drove non-stop over 2 days and covered the very picturesque Dingle peninsula, up to the awesome cliffs of Moher, the Burren, up to the Sky Road near the Coonamara forest. Ireland is gorgeous and hooning about the narrow roads at 100km/hr was a good laugh
- Brussels and Bruges - very cool comic paintings around Brussels which was fun trying to find. Bruges was just gorgeous
- Paris and Versaille - I unequivocably love Paris and can return again and again
- Weekend hiking trip in Wales - walking nonstop for 6.5 hours from Chepstow to Redbrook (nearly 30km) left me hobbling about town for 2 weeks due to a sprained foot. Very foolhardy to say the least, but at least we saw a slice of Wales and the very strangely named 'Offa's Dyke trail'!
- Oh yeah I checked out Stonehenge and Bath as well during a random weekend, had the best scones there!
So I've been quite focused this year, traveling a lot and making more travel plans. Am heading to Scotland in a couple weeks to hike Ben Nevis and check out the mysterious lochs. July will be an extended trip up to Norway for the glorious fjords and the midnight sun all the way in a little town called Bodo - I can't wait to pass the arctic circle!
Not much else has been happening in my life apart from the unending packing and repacking I've been doing. I've been quite remiss with London life apart from what I can squeeze in during the weekdays which is surprisingly a lot given the wealth of shows here! Came back tonite from Lord of the Rings, unfortunately I slept through 3/4 of this 'musical', it was abysmal.
All else has been great and getting better now that spring is here.
