julicorn's journey 3 - The House on the Hill

debtfreewannabe321

Your trip to Lyon sounded amazing 😍!
And all those other breaks....I look forward to hearing about them all, I think lots of little breaks in amongst real life and spreadsheets sounds a great way to live 😁.

julicorn

debtfreewannabe321 said:

Your trip to Lyon sounded amazing 😍!
And all those other breaks....I look forward to hearing about them all, I think lots of little breaks in amongst real life and spreadsheets sounds a great way to live 😁.

Thank you - it was honestly so fantastic, we keep talking about how glad we are we did it! It felt like such a silly spur of the moment thing when I booked it, but we just had the best time. 
And the holiday-spreadsheet combo really is living the dream I started on my allotment spreadsheet too although that one is a bit of a monster and I'm never really happy with it. I need an app like YNAB, but for gardening. Any app developers around?  

seventh88

Just catching up a bit. Lovely to hear what a wonderful time you had - those are the best spends aren’t they? The ones that just make your heart sing, that you’ll remember forever. Well done on your financial goals lately, seems like things are really progressing. 

julicorn

seventh88 said:

Just catching up a bit. Lovely to hear what a wonderful time you had - those are the best spends aren’t they? The ones that just make your heart sing, that you’ll remember forever. Well done on your financial goals lately, seems like things are really progressing. 

Thank you so much for checking in, you're absolutely right! 

We've actually just booked another similar short trip for 2026: We'll be away when Rosalia is playing in London, but we managed to get tickets for Barcelona in April instead, which is very exciting - she's from Barcelona too so it's quite cool being able to see her on home turf, so to speak (We've also slightly adjusted our Interrail plans so we won't be in Barcelona twice.)

Only 6 days until the start of the Hurtigruten! We bought 3 bottles of Aldi red wine to take with us, really making that holiday budget work for us  

Chili81

De-luking to say Rosalia in barcelona sounds great!  Im chuffed me and friends got london tickets.
All your trips sound great. 

julicorn

Chili81 said:

De-luking to say Rosalia in barcelona sounds great!  Im chuffed me and friends got london tickets.
All your trips sound great. 

That's awesome, I hope you have the best time seeing her in London! I tried for Paris and Lisbon first and didn't get tickets for either, and had very low hopes for Barcelona, but then really lucked out - I was only around 6,000th in the queue, and saw some people online who had like 100,000 people in front of them.  I hate ticket buying, it's so unnecessarily stressful. 

seventh88

We've actually just booked another similar short trip for 2026: We'll be away when Rosalia is playing in London, but we managed to get tickets for Barcelona in April instead, which is very exciting - she's from Barcelona too so it's quite cool being able to see her on home turf, so to speak (We've also slightly adjusted our Interrail plans so we won't be in Barcelona twice.)

Only 6 days until the start of the Hurtigruten! We bought 3 bottles of Aldi red wine to take with us, really making that holiday budget work for us  

Ahh brilliant have an amazing time! Ha ha, and well done on sticking to that holiday budget!