A lovely little movie....

I went to see this lovely french movie this week,

its one of the most enjoyable movies i've seen in a while.

I truly felt like i was watching an Audrey Hepburn movie from the 50's.

Recommended!!!

It's been tough going from being a boatwife

to full time school....

these early morning starts are not fun!

and London is sooooo BIG!

Husband comes to visit this weekend...

cant wait!

The London Stage....

I was pretty excited when coming to London

that i'm going to get a chance to see some amazing ballets here.

I enthusiastically booked a ticket to

see the Royal Ballets production of Mayerling

with Alina Cojocaru dancing.

A dancer who i have watched on youtube a lot

but never actually seen live.

Turns out that they (alina and her partner johan) announced a couple of days

before the performance that they were leaving the company.

I was so excited to be there for that special evening.

even though my seat was the cheapest in the theatre which meant i could only 

actually see half the performance because of the restricted viewing.

(it made it a bit tricky to follow the plot!)

this article describes their last performance pretty well

i've never seen so many flowers on a stage in my life!!!

Back to school....

I'm on the fourth day of my course.

I'm attending the 

Royal Academy of Dance Professional Teaching Diploma course.

There's lots of lovely people on the course and

lots of information to take in.

Its good to have fellow students who you can talk to,

i cant tell you how many times we've said to each other

at certain times,

'Oh my Goodness i'm glad that you feel that way too'

(mainly when we are lost and dont have a clue whats going on)

Its quite a broad variety of people too,

all from different backgrounds with different strengths and weaknesses.

For me i think its going to be hard to transition from 

think about how i would do a step as a dancer

to changing my thoughts to how would i teach that step as a teacher.

its a long day and busy schedule

and London is so big

i spend half my time commuting.....

Luckily some of my favouritest people live in London too

(two of my bridesmaids)

i've been trying to squeeze in some social time with them too.

Turns out before i came to London 

my husband emailed my friends and ask them to look

after me as he is worried about me being here without him.

What a sweetie....

good to know that he is taking care of me from a distance

He's my Hercules. 

London life....

arrived in London a couple of days ago and 

Its already rained,

 a lot...

I dont particularly have fond memories

of my previous stay in London

(nearly 2 years)

but at the time i was an unemployed destitute ballerina,

so hopefully things will be a bit different now.

I've been busy getting things sorted,

apartment - i'm living with my sisters so not too scary

moving and unpacking - getting everything out of storage,

after having limited space on the boat i feel like i have so many possessions now!

Getting a phone - i have been phoneless for the past year,

to be honest its been kind of liberating, having the smart phone in my pocket now i'm 

always wondering what messages i've been sent and checking and rechecking,

rather than just walking down a street or sitting at a table and enjoying the scenery.

paperwork - BLah!!!!

starting my dance teachers course on monday....!!!!!!!

Goodbye Mallorca, Goodbye husband...

we're heading back to the uk today,

Husbands cousin is getting married at the weekend

and after that he's taking me to London to settle me in at my new house.

(haha settle me in....i'm living with my sisters,

its not like its going to be all that scary!)

This will be the first time i've lived in the UK for nearly 8 years.

Funny isnt it,

where does the time go?

I've really enjoyed all my travels and really am only heading back for

practicality reasons. I could just keep on going to see you new places.

Husband will still be travelling,

to even more exciting places 

(the caribean, brazil...)

I'm desperately praying and

crossing my fingers that

i will be able to go and meet him

somewhere during the year

but to be honest his schedule changes with the wind

(literally!)

i know it sounds soppy 

but without him i'm only half of who i really am.

Finding fun in every place...

Mallorca is never a place i have wanted to go to.

in my head i have pictures of British tourist packaged holidays

and fresh out of school teenagers at Magaluf.

and yes that part of Mallorca exists, but only if you want it to.

Palma is lovely.

It has loads of fantastic restaurants,

in fact i dont think we've eaten anywhere that wasnt less than great!

We've had a few visitors come to see us and

its so easy to take them around and show them the beautiful city,

its also so easy to take them around and show them the

beautiful country side.

Here are some highlights of my two months here in pictures.

These are near Alaro,

we were recommended by a friend to a place 

infamously called 'The Lamb Restaurant' 

Its right in the middle of a large mountain, 

we hiked up and by the time we got there we were starving!

And let me tell you that

this lamb is exquisite! 

And what a view!

These are from when my grandparents came to visit.

It was great to have them around,

they have such different personalities!

We took them on the touristy train to Soller.

It was an expensive trip

but a nice experience.

and then there is the Cathedral in Palma,

which i guess is the main attraction here

After the grandparents came the in-Laws

we took them to the Caves of Drach.

Husband was complaining about going to the caves,

(he hates going places that are too touristy)

but even he was quite impressed,

even though we have been to see a lot of caves recently!!!

Although Mallorca is a place that would never have been 

put on my travel wish list,

i'm glad that i got to spend some time here

and would definitely recommend a mini holiday here to anyone!

In many ways it reminds me of Slovenia

(which i will admit will always be my home away from home!

Alone time....

It looks like husband and i are destined not to get any peace and quite

alone time.

We spent a busy weekend taking his mum and her husband around the island.

Let me tell you this, hanging out with older people

is good preparation for having kids methinks.

It takes you double the amount of time to go anywhere,

they are so slow,

you have to explain things to them more than once

in different ways so they can understand,

when you take them out you can blink for a second and

you've lost them.

They have no qualms about being PC...blurting

out whatever is on their minds to any passer by!

Its entertaining and hard work!!!

We just got the apartment back to ourselves when 

husband announces he has hired 2 staff to 

take over the crew that just left.

Which means sharing our alone time all over again.

(After one night she has already rearranged the cupboards

 so they are all neat and tidy,

having other people around just

brings up my inadequacies as a housewife)

Not that husband and i get up to anything too exciting in our alone time,

mostly sitting next to each other doing different things...

but knowing that its just the two of us

is just way better.