Why Helllooo!
Long time no talk, readers! It’s been a very long three weeks while we’ve been in Spain, Andorra and France, and we are very happy to be home. We got in to Philly Saturday night, had Sunday to take a breath, restock the fridge, cuddle with the dogs, and then today…today the movers come and will start moving out all of our belongings over the next week.
Scary how time flew by just like that.
I’m so excited to tell you guys about our new house! It’s taking all the willpower I have to not post about it right now, but if I start out with the biggest reveal, what fun is that??
I CAN tell you that at our new house, we’ll have the opportunity to have fresh fish and bread delivered straight to our doorstep…yay! I can also tell you that the closest beach to our house is a nude beach….uhh…yay? lol.
A few other things I can tell you about where we’ll be living is that it will be VERY different from the lifestyle we’re used to. The roads are steep and curvy, which will make transportation on my bicycle nearly impossible, so I’ll have to work even harder at my cycling skills or consider shelling out the dough for a scooter or second car. We’ll see how the first few weeks go, and if I start getting twitchy at home, we can go from there.
The food markets are also definitely not what we’re used to and I’ll have to live the next year with very little international foods (ie burritos, Asian cuisine, Indian food & spices) unless I can make them myself or order some things online. Most surprising to me is that fresh, local and organic produce doesn’t seem to be “in vogue” there, where I thought that would be the easiest thing to find. The markets are full of fruit that are out-of-season, shipped from around the world with stickers on them…definitely not in-line with the changes we’ve made, but we’re told that there’s a more local market on Saturdays that we’ll have to check out.
So I’ve been worried about how we can carry on with our current lifestyle, but that’s the thing…this move was never supposed to be something that didn’t disrupt our precious routines. This move will shake things up, and it will be awesome sometimes, but other times I’m sure we’ll long for home and the comfort and convenience that is harder to come by over there.
I can tell you all right now…this will definitely be a challenge. A fun, exciting challenge, but it’ll be a challenge. My world is about to be tipped upside-down and the only thing I can do at this point is embrace the changes ahead, for better or for worse!
Since I can’t leave you without any pictures, I’ll leave off on the most exciting part of this new chapter in our lives…
Fresh, fresh, fresh seafood!
More to come!!
