We’re back in Australia after five weeks in
the Netherlands. Five weeks so glorious that if I could jump on a plane back to
have just one more day, to hug everyone one more time, to go on one more
bicycle ride to the beach and to have one more family dinner together I would...
But alas, I am a responsible adult (or so I tell myself) and our life is here,
so back to normal it is. And in any case, saying goodbye once is quite enough.
After 17 years abroad, you’d think I would
have got used to leaving. Fact is, I haven’t and I am not sure I ever will. That’s
not to say I don’t love my life here, because I do, pretty much every single
minute of it. But it’s never nice to leave people behind when you go on
journeys as long as that 24 hour flight downunder.
How I deal with it? It’s probably a mixture
of denial – trying to block the goodbyes from my mind and focusing on the
positives, of which there are a lot, thankfully – and a lot of gratitude for what
we do have, a happy, healthy and loving family and an amazing amount of beautiful memories.
Here are some highlights from our most
recent trip back home to the Dutch island of Terschelling. Call me biased - I will be the first to admit I am - but to me this is the most beautiful place on earth, and seen as it's set in a Unesco World Heritage area, I'm pretty sure I'm not alone...
While it’s been tough to leave, those post
holiday blues never last long. Something to do with that glorious Sydney
sunshine and all the fun we have downunder. Here’s what we came back to...
