After only 12 short weeks of living in France being here in the UK/Ireland has felt quite alien to me and I have been acutely aware of the much faster, more stressed and less connected way of life which is so different to life in the Dordogne.
This is where I am sitting as I write this and I just had to share this photo with you because it is so beautiful
We are really loving this level of freedom and ease and we are starting to realise that, if we decided to, we could just live like this for the winter. We could leave France and keep heading south to warmer climes in Greece or southern Italy if we fancied it.
It is so easy to think that you will be fundamentally changed as a human being just because you make a big life change like moving to another country, ending a relationship or changing a job. However, of course, just because the external circumstances of your life are different does not mean that you are different.
We have now been on the road for one week and are gradually settling into our temporarily nomadic lifestyle. So far we have spent nights
A bit like when I started writing this blog, I have a big blank page in front of me and I can make the next seven year cycle into whatever I choose.
So, what will it be? What will I create now? What next?
I have had to keep reminding myself that chaos always precedes reorganisation. Everything has to go to a point of chaos before it can reorganise at a new, higher level and that is exactly what is happening in my life right now. But chaos is not comfortable and I am not so good with it.
When I become very conscious of this fact – that everything passes, nothing is permanent and this could be my last time – then my present moment becomes much more vivid and much more alive. Because I want to remember it.
It has been a crazy week here at Travel Light HQ. We now only have 2 weeks left until we hand over the keys for
Even when the Universe throws me a curve-ball I know that all is well and there is something even better on its way.
