Leaving home
Tonight I am off to the United Arab Emirates.
I travel quite a bit for work. Not as much as I used to before I had a family, but still a fair bit. The truth is, I've had only a handful of jobs in the UK over the last 15 years since I left my job at a newspaper in London. Traveling abroad is unavoidable for me.
Eight years ago, I moved to rural Wales with my partner and I can say that it was the best thing we've ever done. Since then we have renovated a remote farmhouse in the hills and filled it with 3 awesome children.
I remember many years ago when I first started coming to Wales regularly, an old friend who'd been living here for a while took me aside and jokingly warned me.. "If you're not careful, this countryside will take away your ambition".
It took me a few years to start understanding what he was talking about.
Nowadays, it's something that is all too familiar to me... never more so than when it's time to leave.
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You live in an absolutely amazing location! I've to travel so far to enjoy the view like in your window.
Decisions, decisions...
When I'm looking out of my window I'm realizing my decisions weren't the best ones:
Where do you live?
The central part of Israel.
It looks hot where you are though. The grass is always greener on the other side as we say.
Indeed :)
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Nice to have somewhere like that to come home to. I have never made it to wales; it just never seems to be on the destination list. I am sure there is lots to explore there (as there is everywhere).
Wales is amazing. Really.
I will have to get there one day. Sail the coastline perhaps.
It looks beautiful there!