February - the beginning of the end??

 So it is the last day in February and it has been a good month. Slowly things are changing… 

For us the month marked Amaia’s 12th birthday. Can you believe it? We celebrated it over several days with several meals and cakes! She got her Lego and a library worth of books and overall I think she was very happy. The day after her birthday we drove to St Anton for our first holiday in a hotel since we were last in St Anton in February 2020! The drive was uneventful, the sun mostly shone and we didn’t see snow until the end of the drive. There were definitely less cars. No traffic jams! Yay! We arrived to our home from home in the mountains… same rooms, same drill, same staff. It was sooooooo good to be back. Friends from London joined us there and it was a great reunion, similar to pre Covid times except with a face mask or two. But who cares about face masks when we are finally OUT! Out with hundreds of other strangers on the slopes, out having coffees and hot chocolates, out for divine lunches and delicious dinners. We were finally FREE!! And it felt so good. Psychologically it was the medicine we all needed. A taste of freedom with Covid still lingering but hopefully loosening its grasp on our lives. 

We got back and the holiday continued with a sunny weekend in Monaco, lunch at Avenue 31 and a total contrast to our snowy St Anton landscape. 

The return to routine is always tough but last week it was particularly brutal as Husband took off for his first business trip in two years. Normally I wouldn’t bat an eyelid but I am out of practice and after a holiday it seemed even harder! As you can see this week, it is Monday and I am already so on top of it all I’m actually writing this post!!

I don’t know if it was the optimistic holiday mode or the easing of restrictions but already I have holiday plans for the next few months. Easter in Spain, London in May and Paris possibly for the Grand Prix. It is exciting to plan again and hopefully all remaining restrictions and paperwork will slowly ease off by the time we travel. I hope so anyway!