Hello Hello again, it's been a while, I know. What happened, and what is up with that title, after all these years of living somewhere else???In fact it is almost 11 years now that I left Germany to live somewhere else. And here I am, planning to move back to the home country.I am still in Spain. We got through the major lockdown in spring which was horrible and at the same time beautiful for me. After a few days of solitary confinement in my apartment in the village I moved to the yoga center and we had a little community, nature to spend time outside, and basically a whole hotel to ourselves! Jumps into the cold salt water pool in the morning, meditations and yoga, movie nights. We continued to work in different fields, but only 25 hours a week, and I felt like this is how life should be. I didn't miss going somewhere else at all, I was perfectly happy being in the here and now and to just BE.But then we opened again, and slowly started working again and getting guests.
My plans of going to Portugal had died of course, so I stayed in Spain and took on my old job again.Then in late summer I got the message that my grandmother had fallen and was in hospital. I am very close to my grandparents, who are 91 and 92 years old. It seemed she would not be able to go back home in her condition so they might need to move to a care home. So I booked a flight and went to Germany, stayed almost 4 weeks and helped my sister sorting things finding a care home, supporting my granddad who was at home alone during that time.It made me realise that my family needed way more support in these days, and that I also wanted to spend more time with my grandparents in their last years. I had wanted change anyway, and the situation in Spain wasn't looking great, and I had no other plans, so I decided to move back to Germany. Which after 11 years almost feels like a new adventure. When I had been in September it felt good and right to be there, for the first time since I had left. So once again I follow my intuition.It's gonna be a big change for sure! I still haven't decided if I will fly or drive, and especially in these days traveling is not the easiest of course. I will have to quarantine and so on, but hopefully then I can soon find a new work and settle a bit. It's an adventure and it feels good.So sometimes living somewhere else means taking the road home for a while.We shall see.
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