Radio silence on here last week, as I was on an actual holiday. I'm bad at downtime and find travel disproportionately stressful, which does make me take less holiday and less advantage of holiday than perhaps I should, but this was very nice.
We were in Dubrovnik, right at the end of the season, which meant that, despite being half-term week, it was (comparatively) quiet. We got lucky with the weather. I don't think I would have particularly minded rain, as I don't holiday specifically for the sun, but we in fact had fortuitiously glorious weather all week.
I'm now sitting at my desk trying to brush the cobwebs off my brain. As much as I find it hard to switch into downtime and get my head out of work and routine and process, going back is hard, too (albeit less stressful than the threat of travel). There is comfort and power, for me, in routine and systems, and it eases the transition -- makes it more like picking up a favourite tool, the handle worn just into the right shape. It sits comfortably in the hand, but still feels a little heavier than you remember, and you worry, briefly, that you might have forgotten how to swing it. (You haven't.)
Time to start swinging.
