I made a point of saving the instructions on how to get to my hotel. All of it was in front of me and I still decided (I don’t think I have too much choice in these matters) to get a little confused and waste some time in the airport. I walked all the way to the hotel from the train station (thank you Google maps!). I’m pretty sure everything will look even better in daylight. After a 1210 flight which was delayed and my usual getting lost first time, it’s taken a day to arrive at a destination that was 1hr 50mins away from London. Time spend fretting about getting lost and making mistakes is wasted time, so I just accept it and carry on these days.

Given that I only decided to travel on the evening before, I think I’ve done well. The only thing I forgot was my power adapted for the strange plug sockets they have in the rest of the world. Who in their right minds would invent a plug that doesn’t really bloody hurt when you walk on it barefoot?

Pizza has arrived. Time for a food break.

Missing out on the power adaptor isn’t such a bad thing. I’ve been planning for moments like this with new phone, laptop life of ten hours, and travelling with power bank to keep the smaller items topped up. I will pop out and buy a charger if the hotel reception don’t have one.

There is a point to this. Not everything goes to plan. And it’s nice to be able to plan for that and then make it a habit. Running out of money, or options is never great, and that causes stress and possibly fear. The worst fear is the one that leads to doing nothing. Money is a big factor, and it can lower expectations and horizons. All I’m doing is traveling, writting a bit and not getting stressed out. This is priceless, but in the modern world it comes with a price. I haven’t spent very much, it was too much for me in the past and too much for many people now. This leaves me feeling very lucky yet again.

I never traveled enough for the reasons above, and a few more. Now that I am it makes me feel sad for what we will lose if Brexit isn’t managed very well. At the moment things don’t look great.

Like so many conversations between people off and on the spoken media, Brexit is never far away. And I don’t know how it found a way in to this as well.