In Love with Life: It All Started From Christmas in Paris...

Hello everybody,

It is 2014. Happy New Year everybody. Don’t make any resolutions because I love you already without them 

Anyway, it is not about it. It is about my life. My trip, people I meet, food I try, tears I cry.

They say Christmas is a family celebration. Eating together, spending time together and just simply sharing and it’s true! But what do you do when you are far away from your family. It’s simple, you create another family. You enjoy the moments shared with ones you met. And it can become special, I promise.

My Christmas was in Paris. Eating with my friend’s Jessica family, listening language I don’t know, laughing from too much vine, just being there and now. And it was great!

Paris was good, but I am not sure I am coming back there. Too big and grey. I don’t like when you are dependent on transport and can’t walk everywhere in few hours

And then hitch-hiking all way to London. What can I say, it was fucking hard. One of the most challenging day in my trip. Short distances, rain, wind, cold, shitty hitch-hiking spots on the road, under the bridge, strong language barrier, but then very easy hitch-hiking to the ferry. Hitch-hiking from Dover was a mess, nobody were stopping, seemed like UK never seen any hitch-hikers on a road. Anyway, somehow we made it, we arrived to London around 1 o’clock in the night but our trip was not finished yet. We were in Enfield, north of London not even close to any underground station to get us to the centre. After missing last trains, struggling with buses, being lost, hungry and maybe sometimes angry we arrived to my friends flat at 4 am. Guess how well we slept that night, haha?

That day was really trying us, checking if we are strong enough. We could always easily catch a bus from somewhere and get into it but we said no, and we carried on. Never show your back for hitch-hiking luck. Sometimes you hate it when you stand in freezing cold and nobody is stopping for you but then you meet those life saviers and you fall in love with hitch-hiking again.

I never really liked London. Too big for me as well, but this time London showed it’s nice side, it was sunny and blue sky for 2 days, how could you not like this!!! We had great time with my friends and that’s the most important.

My New Years Eve was in my beloved Brighton. Big house party with one of couchsurfers, seeing faces I haven’t seen for a while, laughing, dancing, flirting, drinking. It was not spectacular but I had great fun. And I am always very emotional in the midnight, I feel the year changing. I know it sounds stupid  That night I was looking through the big window to the lights and some fireworks and I thought a lot about some of you. Where you are at that moment, do you enjoy your life and how much I missed spending time with you.

Tomorrow I am starting another page of my interesting book. I am flying back to Spain. I have been accepted with Leonardo da Vinci programme (google it, it’s great!) to live in Sevilla for 3 months. You know you are welcome, make sure I see some of you, you have to fall in love with this beautiful region Andalucia.

Love you a lot (well, some of you even more than that!)

Ligita