Benefits of massage

Back from holidays. It was a good break, not typically relaxing as I went for for city breaks instead of beach but definitely a change of set.

After 1 week away, I wasn't really relaxing... and you know what really did it for me?
Walking down the street, in an impulse I went for one of those places where they give you 10 minutes massages... By the end of the massage I barely could speak and at night all I could think of was 'bed please!'. I had a fantastic night sleep, like a rock and woke up really energised though a bit sore. The rest of the week I kept sleeping really well and feeling increasingly relaxed. It made me realize how much my body was stressed (I didn't really know until I started to feel it relax).

Definitely I will do it again. I've done massages before, the difference about this one was that it was really quite hard, aggressive almost, but really perfect for relaxing your muscles!

Getting out there

I've had a friend from overseas stay over in the last week or so.
The funny thing is that having this friend over has made me go out of my routines and rediscover some things that I enjoy!
In the last months (or more!) I now realize I have kind of fallen into routines... Yes I do go out with friends, yes I keep on doing a lot of sport, yes I do go away on weekends, yes I do travel... but sometimes I just stay at home at night. And there are some things that I used to enjoy in the past and that I don't do anymore - just because I thought it would be boring.

With my friend over, I had to show her round and it made me go back to old haunts that I used to love and... I realised that I still love them and really enjoy being there!!!! I had just been thinking 'been there, done that' and thinking how boring it would be but... there's nothing like going out and doing it.