Our Little Jaunt

Homesickness and leaving peeps…

It’s true to say that neither of us are strangers to travelling. I have lived an worked abroad (in  Mantova and Bologna) and  I’ve been to India for a long trip (where himself and I ‘met’  in a  cyber cafe).  So I suppose in a roundabout way, I owe this whole adventure to that place, and to the momentous downpours of the Indian monsoon, which left me stranded and bored enough to spend some time chatting to a random boy from Staffordshire. I digress………but hell, this is technically our honeymoon!

We had an ‘official’ leaving do to say goodbye to family on the 1st November at The Croft – a charming, wonderful venue which we were also lucky enough to secure for our wedding reception on New Year’s Eve 2008/09.

My lovely sister-in-law also threw a surprise party for us – ’surprise’ being the operative word. She had gone to such an incredible effort, it was beyond words and we can’t really say any more than that.  Amazing to see so many loved ones in one room.

So why am I writing all this? Well, for several reasons. Isn’t it strange, this ‘leaving’ business? Sometimes I can feel like the most rebellious, confident, independent person in the world, envisaging myself throwing my pack on my back without so much as a by-your-leave and sprinting off into the sunset (well, at least 200 metres…..).

Yet at other times, I want to cry myself to sleep like a toddler, lying in the darkness listening to my heart break. The human condition is an odd one.

I cannot be alone in these feelings – I am sure it must be something that every traveller grapples with. But I am of the opinion that, just like hubby’s jabs, the idea of leaving everyone we love is worse than the reality. Of course we will miss them but the joy surely lies in the fact we have them to return to – that we have them at all.

Right now,  even though on the whole I enjoy it, I’m basking in the freedom of leaving work and the responsibility which comes with that  – just for a while. I have a good feeling about all this.

Everyting gonna be …. irie…..

Tags: homesickness, leaving