Not long before I left Australia, I remember a conversation with Mark, a member of my trivia team, to whom I declared that "a year of travelling should hopefully get it out of my system". Mark looked at me rather strangely, like I recently arrived from Pluto, and declared, rather matter-of-factly, "oh no... once you start travelling, it's never enough"... as I was soon to discover.
When living in Holborn over the summer last year, I found myself living from paycheck to paycheck, with very little margin for error. That did encourage me to discover London and surrounds on-the-cheap, but by August I was in desperate need for a holiday in the sun. So I arranged to travel to Sitges for a week (with Mark, Greg, and Martin), returning to Barcelona for a solo weekend. I also booked weekend trips to Venice, Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Vienna, and Istanbul. In September/October alone, I was out of London for five consecutive weekends... which is more exhausting, unfun, and unrelaxing than it sounds. Still, I'm not complaining. But that exhaustion, coupled with my many house moves in the fourth quarter, meant that photos remained unsorted, not uploaded, and my blog very out of date... I actualy started writing this post in February this year, six months after the material time, and it's been in draft until now!
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