Spain was beautiful, such a nice relaxing, chilled week - I haven't had a relaxing full week at the beach for nearly two years now which is kinda crazy! The day before we flew out news broke that the worst forest fires in a decade had spread through the area we were going to, basically we were flying to Malaga and driving to Estepona but the road we needed to use was right in the middle of these fires. Anyway airports were still open and we figured it would be fine and when we got there the road was open again but it was black along the motorway and there was still smoke in some places from the last of the now dying fire... of course my parents weren't informed of this until I returned to London!! The fire had spread to the forestry near our house so everyone had vacated which meant we had the pool to ourselves for a few days!! Crazy to think we probably would have had to go back to London if we had flown out on the Friday instead...
Nothing major to report other than that, we slept in, swam in the pool, chilled on the beach, ate at yummy restaurants and just really relaxed in the beautiful sun. It felt a bit like home and its so refreshing to walk around in boardies and a singlet again! On one of the nights we went on a boat ride and watched the sunset which was one of my favourite parts of the holiday for sure. There was a marina round the corner from the beach and we had dinner at the restaurants there and I couldn't help but think that for 12 years I lived round the corner from Half Moon Bay marina and only ate there once - its truly amazing what you see when you leave home that you never saw when it was in front of you everyday.
Whats next? Well this week is the lead up to our fashion show so it will be work work work, the following week we will be in Paris for four days and the most exciting news of all is that I will be heading to Tokyo in 3 weeks time. TOKYO! Since I was 9 years old and first wrote my name in Katakana I have dreamed of Japan and finally I have the opportunity to go with work for 7 days. Following Japan (literally the next week) I will be in Lake Como with work again to develop a project I have been working on for the past few months. Full steam ahead!
