Places Aren't Always What You Expect.

Scotland has offered me the most beautiful blue skies, and has shown me every shade of green. Darting through the countryside with the top down is refreshing. The world is still here. Get away from all the city noise and all the people, the industries and the places, and it's there. Scotland smells like i remember my childhood smelling. British Countryside. There are signs of spring all around and shadows of mountains in the background. Even the city is shockingly beautiful.

I spent a day wandering Dunblane. A day in Edinburgh seeing the palace, the castle, and walking the Royal Mile. I spent a day in St Andrews seeing the golf course and ruins with Mark which included seeing two oceans in one day! And a day hiking. All of this was accompanied by extremely good food.

Relaxation - nice to see you. Didn't realize just how much i'd been neglecting you. My body was on verge of a breakdown. I've been trying so hard to do and see everything that i forgot to just BREATHE.

Seeing people like Mark and Helen doesn't happen very often. It's one of those circumstances where life gave you someone great - and then took you away from them. But it's one of those circumstances that no matter how much time and distance tests us, nothing will ever change. It's hard to say goodbye to people like that.. The kind of people that you thought you would always be around - until life got in the way. It really makes you appreciate the time you do have.

But maybe life is just proving to you that you're in control. You can always go back. You can be wherever you want to be. You just need to learn how to survive on your own first.

I'm going back right now, back to Nottingham. The place i used to cherish as home, as my childhood. Now i'm wondering what it will be like. Places don't freeze in time just because you're gone.

Country Roads,
     Take Me Home..