Finally, after several exhausted and painful attempts to get this blog up and going, I'm here!
With just 8 days to lift off, I am excited to say the least. Flight details arrived last night, I'm so excited about this new adventure I would nearly go sit in the airport now and wait!
WHY? This will be my first flight since I returned from Rio in December 2012! Yep, the joys of opening and running your own business and being self-employed on the beautiful island I have called home for the first and last 10 years of my life, IRELAND.
Will I be sad to say goodbye for another few years? Hell no! Do I regret being back here for the last 10 years, absolutely not. Ireland is a great place, full of wonderful, ambitious, mischievous people - some of whom I will miss but suspect that adventure and my new job will overtake any feelings of loneliness.
I have always wanted to go on a cruise and strike a few more places off my travel bucket list. Forcing myself into something outside my comfort zone (which is apparently where the magic happens) has re-ignited a passion that was dampened after loosing everything I had and I'm feeling like a very powerful Phoenix again. And no, this is not plan B. I'm on about plan E or F at this stage and have already got G,H,I in place should this one not work out because thankfully there are 27 letters in the alphabet :) I am a big believer in 'its not what happens to you - its how you deal with it'
So, the countdown is on, I have moved house, done medicals, applied for visas, received itineraries for flights and my next 4 months on board Seabourn Sojourn, learned rules and regulations (so I can be ahead of the rest when I get on board), watched numerous you tube videos and got to know the ship even before I have seen it in person, said farewells, spent extra time with nieces and nephews, organised a bon voyage drinks session, started packing.
Am I nervous? yeah a little, I will be sharing a cabin with some lucky cailin, a big change from sharing a big apartment with a flatmate in Dublin. I will have a whole new family of over 300 people who I will spend day and night working and living alongside. Every 7-21 days will have a whole new set of customers to get to know and take care of. I wonder how long it will take me to make manager? I wonder what my manager will be like? Will I find my sea-legs soon?
on the flipside... I'M GOING ON AN ADVENTURE!!! I get to do what I do best and that is meet and take care of some really cool people, I get to wake up in a different country pretty much every day for the next 4 months (and years to come), I get to get my butt back to the gym, I get to save money and see TONNES of places that I have been dying to see and am not going to wait until I am in my 50's or 60's to do! My camera is charged and ready to go and I would do backflips if my back would allow. And FOOOOOOD!!!! I get to discover and learn and eat lots of wierd, wonderful and delicious food, steal more recipes and meet more chefs, cooks and legends. I get to see some amazing sunrises and sunsets, to be soothed to sleep with the gentle rocking of the ocean.
Come follow me on my adventure, I'm on facebook https://facebook.com/moiraswanderlust and on Twitter https://twitter.com/moiragray and of course on Instagram https://instagram.com/moiraswanderlust/
Go Moira, You will turn this ADVENTURE into a Blog/Book/Movie/ even your journey in Photos that may also be a bestseller.
ReplyDeleteBrilliantly written Moira. I'm really looking forward to more blogs as you take your next big adventure xxx
ReplyDeleteGood lucky again, Moira!! Wish you the best!!
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