Home on my sofa! For a little while until the next trip, anyway. Drove back to Newcastle today and am enjoying my home comforts again.
I have really enjoyed getting back to travelling though. Now thinking about where we could go in the future 🙂
My first Norwegian parkrun and only my second ever non-UK one!
Also my first sub-35 in many months. It was a tough five-lapper with lots of ups and downs, but I felt like I could go a bit faster this morning and it was a very freeing experience. Hot day too!
I intend to return to Oslo in future – not solely for parkrun reasons, but it’s exciting that there are a few different ones to do here!
Adding coordinates for the King Street West box today!
Now that I’m poking my nose out into the world again, I’m hopeful of going back to Toronto and this box sooner rather than later.
Flying visit to Dublin in both senses! We flew out yesterday morning, enjoyed a wonderful Duran Duran gig in the north of the city (review to come soon) and flew back this morning (a lot later than intended but let’s not dwell on that). It was really strange at first to be on a plane again after four years, but it felt normal again very quickly. I’m finding that with a lot of things.
With yesterday’s flight, my record streak of time spent without leaving the UK came to a welcome end. My new record is 1,418 days: I did not leave the UK between arriving into Edinburgh from Toronto on 25th July 2018 and leaving Newcastle for Dublin on 12th June 2022. I do not wish to break this record again. While home is far and away my favourite place, there are lots of far-flung things in the world that are worth poking my nose out for.
Just a quick post this morning as I’m travelling today for a concert. Going to see Duran Duran again – a gig that was booked for 2020 originally and has been postponed twice. It’ll be lovely to go finally.
Quite a lot on this month but I’m focusing on one thing at a time as it’s a bit overwhelming otherwise!
So the PLAN was to go and do Town Moor today for the returning annual Blaydon Race T-Shirt Show-Off. Town Moor is cancelled next week and the week after for the Hoppings fair but it was meant to be on today.
However, the Hoppings prep lorries rolled up early on the Moor this morning and Town Moor cancelled at approximately 8:45am – so at 8:48am when we realised what was happening, we joined the mass panic jog down to Leazes Park. We made it with about three minutes to spare, though they then went and delayed the start to allow for Town Moor stragglers! This enabled a much-appreciated breather before getting going again.
Not at all my fastest around Leazes, though it was a couple of minutes faster than last week’s time at Jesmond Dene as it’s an easier course. Happy with that on current legs!
