Editor's Blog May 2nd 2012
The long weekend was kind of a washout for me, at least for the first couple of days. The rain played absolute havoc with my plans of riding down to Jerez and getting me some Moto GP time.
Resigned and feeling sorry for myself I curled into a ball and committed Carbiside whilst watching movies. On the Saturday I bought a whole roast chicken and a baton of Tiger bread ate it and promptly fell into a deep sleep like a large snake.
Last night I was catching up with a really good friend after she had got back from a long weekend break in Italy and she like others had the right idea and cutting away for the break rather than staying in dreary old Gib.
What was really interesting was what she said about Italy, “Italy always does it for me. It's my place”. Which got me thinking, “we all have a place that mirrors our inner/ outer selves.
With that said my place has to be somewhere that is still rugged and wild, staying away from the big cities if I can, enjoying the solitude of a mountaintop or a deserted beach, not that you can’t find solitude in a city.
I was in London a few years ago, I had been there for four months and I was sat under the Eros statue at Piccadilly Circus and thinking London is a city of some seven million souls, yet I feel alone, wrapped in my own thoughts watching everyone go by, and thinking Gibraltar is where I need to be.
But is Gibraltar my “Place", It’s my home. Its where all my family and friends are, it’s where I work, but is it my place? The more I think about it, I really don’t think it is. I think my place is all the places I have never been to, all those mountains I still have to climb and all those people I still have to meet.
For me the world is my place, as it is yours, you would be foolish to think that the extent of your world is as far as you can see. It’s a big old place full of interesting things and people.
If you stayed in Gibraltar this weekend and found like me that you wasted an opportunity, I urge you to make a note of your next long weekend book a flight and get out there.
