A SILVER LINING
2020 – A silver lining. Each year I aim to progress in work, family, travel, training, and the blog, and this year was no different.
WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU LEMONS….
I set myself some targets as well as having a plan for where I wanted to visit.
FUNNY START
It got off to a strange start. Yes, it only took me until 2nd January to get on a plane but when I arrived in Georgia my travel agent got his dates mixed up by a year. The next trip was spent escaping from the Coronavirus as it began to spread around the world. My flight to Iran was cancelled 1 hour before it was due to take off and thank god it was, otherwise I might still be there. Iran was one of the first and worst hit countries and even a few months on it continues to get worse.
2020 A silver lining
But anyway, I made it home and the next trip to Turkey was all organised. I have been to Turkey before but there was so much more I wanted to see and I somehow managed to get it all squeezed into 2 weeks. My family and I were joined by my other sister and her family, making it a great holiday. I almost thought it was too good to be true, which in the end it proved to be.
2020 A silver lining
LAUNCH
If you’re reading this before September 2020, you’ve found my blog before its release. Yes, it’s live but I haven’t officially relaunched it. I planned to launch it before my Turkey/Lebanon trip, but it was cancelled the day before I was due to leave.
2020 A silver lining
The website design and layout were confirmed (it took 2 years), but I wasn’t happy with the content. As of May it remains a work in progress, so please bear than in mind, however I am a lot closer than 2 months earlier.
…MAKE LEMONADE
SILVER LINING
Coronavirus has put our lives on hold and has been terrible for most of us. Many have had it worse, including those who lost family members and front line workers risking their lives.
However, it has given many of us free time, allowing me to work on the blog. I have been working on this blog almost every night and every weekend for the past 2 years but it just wasn’t cutting it, I wasn’t getting anywhere. But since the lockdown I have been happily working at the same computer for 14 hours a day for the past 8 weeks straight. I also had to go through 40,000 photos to write up my travels from the last 4 years. So I apologise if some of the entries have spelling mistakes, don’t make sense or seem a little rushed. I am sacrificing some quality to get it done, a necessary compromise.
COMPROMISE
To complete it in time, I sacrificed other aspects of my life that kept me sane. Instead of working out and staying healthy I ate whatever was at hand. I don’t want to say I didn’t have time as I don’t see that as a valid excuse but rather I didn’t want to make the time. I can worry about these little muscles another time.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Obviously, the world would be a better and safer place without Coronavirus and I wouldn’t say for a minute I was thankful for it. But what I was thankful for was the free time and opportunity that I wouldn’t have otherwise been given. I would have been just as thankful if I had my own family to spend time with. The blog would have been launched regardless but deep down I wouldn’t have been entirely happy about it, not in the same way it will be come the relaunch. Fingers crossed.
SAFE TRAVELS, DS x 143/229
