An immersive experience on Hurtigarten up the Norwegian coast. Not the hot relaxation I partly wanted but an affordable journey.  More on the metaphor later.

 

Comment on return home.

Still sad to leave –  the clear air, the different landscape, the easily catered for and no work input by me. Switch brain back to “output” mode as has been on “receive” for 10 days – of information/ instructions. No more” Meinen Damen und Herren…” to greet us over the tannoy in the morning  from the guides And not least returning to challenges of home,

• Will partner return to former grumpy levels – not so far – 36 hours,
• Picking up on caring for mother duties. She has been ill/recvering for last month probable UTI – so insidious and she has drained my sister not least her negativity and lack of gratefulness – not that we do it to be thanked it is the daily not right – when she is ill she is quiet and normal. Once she is being annyoying we know she is on the mend.

Returned late Monday ( now Wednesday midday) .

• Nice sleep,
• unpacked next day and started washing – we didn’t push it as much as we might have if we were going back to work and also partly because the washing machine is still in garage and tumbler has to be put half in half out of garage as not plumbed in as hasn’t got a spot. But it means we can be more relaxed. Weather good enough to hang the washing out. Son gives us his two weeks of washing!!!  I will train him (again – but he doesn’t always easily adapt to new situations).
• No foreboding sinking feeling last night of having to go back to work. Nice
• Aim to finish washing today as still nice weather.
• Will probably spend the rest of the week reorientating. Hubby seems to be bothered – “ it will take a while to adjust timings” we were only one hour out! but I can manage to think it is nice not to have to kick in straight away and it is more adaptive to see what a new “routine” might be now we are back.
• The weather has change massively for the better – light and the rain has gone – hopefully when comes back not so interminable.
• Have decided to try and make place pretty even in short term as much as I can at low cost. Alpines/plants out the front, models ? rockery to look like Norway? Greening the fence, pot plants needing attention.

So yes it is different now not back to work and intense work at that.

The weekend wont be catching up with what got missed in the day between returns ( from hols and to work).

Can I allow myself to download and organise pictures and the memorabilia? So organised and not in queue for sorting at later date? – now no later date really.  Make something I love & greener cos reduce the pics to reduce my cloud storage and the pollution all the electricity causes storing all this useless stuff which I suspect may not get looked at again.

 

Yup different

And allowing myself to settle back

Not a forced plunge back.

 

Hence easier for big holidays. I remember my 40^th trip and the first week back was a real challenge as I was still out on the Steppes of Russia in the vast landscape. Luckily I had planned a restricted week with no big jobs as going back after three weeks was a challenge of catch up e.g. emails, what had been happening, what had happened to clients etc.

Hopefully holiday effect might last longer than the usual three dyas at work if that. we will see.