Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

se999

KC - If you still want independant travel, have you thought of youth hostelling, we've only stayed at ones in the UK and Canada, but there were lots of retired pensioners there, so you'd be a youngster. We were worried we'd be the eldest, but in CAnada a Japanese couple older than us had their parents with them too There's no reason why you can't do a rerun of your Greek & Turkey trip. I've always said if anything happened to OH, I'd go around the world backpacking for a year, to learn to live independently again, and also so that my DS's would see me as confident and independent and not be fretting about their poor mother.

Currently we know we need to do our wish list of places to visit, and actually get around to seeing them whilst we're still healthy and energetic enough to really enjoy them.

se999

Redsquirel - Lille at Christmas is super, we went with our sons one year for a weekend, they had Santa abseiling down the clock tower, we went on the big wheel in the square with the snow swirling around. DS's loved the hot fresh gauffre's, and there was a super open air Christmas market. It was really easy on Eurostar.

redsquirrel80

Good luck with the herbalist Karma, let us know how it goes.

Se - yep we went just as the Christmas market was starting, it was brilliant. Mmm crepes and mulled wine (and cider) and that thing with all the melted cheese on it Went on the big wheel too although both me and my friend are scared of heights so it was a bit, erm, nervewracking! I absolutely loved the supermarket too - 99 cent fizzy wine... ahhh!

se999

It was a semi-blizzard when we went on the big wheel, I'm scared of heights too, and the gondolas were definitely blowing in the wind :eek: But the view of the town with the snow swirling was super

Keeping_Motivated

So you 'are' looking after yourself and your conscious effort is working:

Decorators are in - looking after yourself.
Food researched and bought - looking after yourself.
Herbalist visit - looking after yourself.
Recognising when you need rest - looking after yourself.

Feels lovely to read that you are even recognising you might be in need of a holiday too - looking after yourself.

Yey at last. I have been reading your diary for a long time and its finally come around to you, thats very nice to read.

Take care
KM x

macgirl

Lille sounds lovely for a Pre-Christmas jaunt. I used to go there twice a year to a Trade Fair, all this travel chat is giving me itchy feet.

Hope the herbalist appt went well KC and hope you are feeling better soon Pippi

MrsMoo2U

Hey KC, nothing wrong with staying near the hotels if that was what the holiday was all about. Hope it went well at the herbalists. Sounds very interesting.

Karmacat

Hello everyone! How nice to come back to good wishes - its very energising, very connecting :kisses3:

The herbalist was great - um, she went *way* beyond herbalism - in fact, you'd think she was on MG's matrix - but kind of beyond that too I have some detox tea and capsules, some echinacea, and some high quality vitamin c.... I also have half a dozen websites, with everything from good quality food to a bloke called Gregg Braden who works on the divine matrix, a dentist who replaces amalgam fillings, a couple of authors promoting longevity, you name it, I got it. I already subscribe to one of the authors (tho I kind of delete his emails without looking ). I've been circling around this stuff for 20 years or more, like a frightened shark (thats the image that came up! Good grief, what does that say about my psyche?) a lot of what she said about nutrition I completely agree with, but .... "Jane Goodall says that chimps live for 160 years?". Um, no she doesn't.

But a lot of new research throws up some oddball stuff too, thats okay. And certainly, I have a person there who's willing to keep an overview on my nutrition for me, and give me feedback and information about new things.

And I went to see Wol afterwards just down the road - she drove me back here, bless her :A and we had a good old chat. Then I went to bed

Karmacat

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

So you 'are' looking after yourself and your conscious effort is working:

Decorators are in - looking after yourself.
Food researched and bought - looking after yourself.
Herbalist visit - looking after yourself.
Recognising when you need rest - looking after yourself.

Feels lovely to read that you are even recognising you might be in need of a holiday too - looking after yourself.

Yey at last. I have been reading your diary for a long time and its finally come around to you, thats very nice to read.

Take care
KM x

How lovely! Thanks KM! And thanks to all who posted about holidays. I've changed trains at Lille, but all I can remember is a lovely statue of a lion drinking, and a billboard at the top of a skyscraper showing Tintin and Snowy

Youth hostels can be a really good idea - I was using them less than ten years ago - in my *present* state of health, I don't think they'd be a good idea - no privacy, nowhere quiet, no private loo. But when I'm well, I'd certainly go back to them. One of the guys I met at the youth hostel in Iraklion on Crete was in his 60s, and I'm not *there* yet

Karmacat

I just checked on the warning at the top of the page before I closed down for the night - Martin's been out working all day, but he's back at MSE Towers Right Now - he posted about 15 minutes ago, about this email/username thing thats going on. And he's had accusations of selling the list and all sorts of things - really, I mean! Madness.