Reading, Sleeping & Eating.

Best way to spend a holiday.

Bob unexpectedly got most of the week off from work and as we didn't know about it, we are doing divinely nothing at all. No rushing about, although yesterday we did a stint in Oberwart to stock up larder and rekindle our fondness of sushi which was rather hectic in the end and Bob was reaching the end of his tether. Fighting Oberwart's holiday traffic can be hair-raising.

Bob works so jolly hard that I am thrilled that he is reading ( finished a book already ) at times with the book next to him ( as well as a slumbering cat ), watching tv but most importantly, relaxing. The art of relaxing isn't that easy. Often one feels the need to use holidays to hoover up ( naturally styled to Instagram perfection ) cities, museums, shopping malls or sunshine at the beach and mostly ending up more stressed than before the holiday.

Gosh, if we had a few months leave than a week or two on Croatia's beaches might be just the ticket, but when time is rare, the less done the better.

This morning Bob did a solo trip pirouetting our lawn mowing equipment gracefully about the garden even though I had offered to do most of it. It has been a long time since he did a solo trip like that and I have a sneaking suspicion that he wanted to iron out all those imperfections my turn at the 'wheel' had produced. Perfectionism has its price...more work!

In an hour's time we are about to head off to Kopfensteiner's Buschenschank with the folks and what better way to round off a peaceful and relaxing day. The old adage of Less is More should be put on banners everywhere to remind us that we don't need a lot to be happy and more importantly, we don't need to hoover up every morsel of holiday activity in order to feel like we've had a good holiday.

Biggi