Tomorrow we fly to San Diego for the next five weeks. Our time here in Florida has just flown by. It’s been great fun exploring, but we are both really excited to move on to the West Coast and see what it has to offer. In the meantime, this week I have been liking… Margaritas….
And my word was it hot. We spent last weekend in Miami. It’s an easy two and a half hour drive from Fort Myers along “Alligator Alley” which means mile after mile of Everglades grassland to look at with just one single petrol station on the way where everyone stops because they were starting to panic…
Last night, trying to find a comfortable position to sleep on my sunburn (oh Miami sun, you are sneaky), there was a continuous loud rumbling sound. “Is that the air conditioning making that much noise?” I asked Rasmus? “No, I think it’s the rain…” he replied. We got up to look and it was indeed…
I don’t have any friends here in Florida. Except Rasmus of course. It’s been a great couple of months – we’ve done so much and I’ve enjoyed so many moments. But there have been a thousand other moments when I’ve been terribly homesick for all my friends back in Brussels. When I’ve really wanted to…
I’ve been volunteering at the Salvation Army here in Fort Myers each morning for the last month. It gets me out of the flat, I get to actually have conversations with people other than Rasmus, and I make a teeny difference (through filing, answering the door with a smile, doing mock interviews for job-searching clients)….
This week I have been liking… Soul Food. Went out with my Salvation Army colleagues to “Chicken ‘n Waffles” for um, chicken and waffles 🙂 Although actually coming from Belgium I’m a little over waffles, so I went for the chicken, mac n’ cheese and corn bread. Yum! Golf. I am still very much the…