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In just a few days I will be heading off on my next adventure.  I will be off to re explore Lausanne, Switzerland. I say re-explore as I lived there for the best part of a year 17 years ago. I was the epitome of young, dumb and broke or a jeune fille au pair (my official job description). It was a stunning city but a lot of the beauty was wasted on me as I grappled to find myself and to cope in a city where I knew no one. So now I am finally heading back to see it with fresh eyes as someone who now relishes the thought of travelling solo. The thing I am most likely to be asked about my upcoming trip is who am I going with and when I answer alone (usually this is followed by a slightly awkward silence ) and then they ask am I meeting people over there (Nope) as though going by myself isn't something I am likely to do deliberately. The only awkward thing about paving my own way is trying to explain to people that its a choice and I am more than happy to be rediscovering myself...

I'm not really much of a festival person if I'm honest. I'm not great with big crowds and have low tolerance for very drunk people. I think the only big music festival I've been to is Electric Picnic around 12 years ago and I didn't even camp. When I first heard about Wellfest last year, I knew immediately it was the sort of thing I would enjoy but I fell into some weird procrastination void and didn't book tickets. Instead I watched all the build up on social media and then duly kicked myself for missing out. I think part of what was holding me back was I didn't know anyone else going and I was apprehensive about doing something like that solo. I've since come to realise that you could waste most of your life waiting for other people and miss out on all the good stuff inbetween. The minute the 2019 tickets went on sale I booked mine and then forgot all about it for a few months so it was like a present from me to me when they started to build the...

Hello, to anyone who has been a regular reader of my blog. I have not disappeared. I just haven't been able to come up with a blog topic that I haven't covered to death already so I just thought I'd write an update on where I have been at since I last wrote something. I did a month of nights and if I'm honest that was actual hell. I have written so many posts around sleep deprivation that even I could have strung a sentence together during that time, I doubt I would have anything interesting to add on the topic. However this time around I did take up yoga and re took up meditation while on nights and I'm still going so that's a bonus (on top of the not dying from exhaustion) and I also happened to read a book called why we sleep which honestly scared me. I've always gotten a bit freaked by how little sleep I manage on nights so having the science to back up how much harm its doing was not particularly reassuring. Ultimately I think it was a good thing be...