Captains Blog – returning after a 2 year
gap to bring you updates on the adventure that you’ve come to expect from
the SobCoe team.
Most people that read this are probably
aware that we didn’t disappear from life like we did from the blogosphere. What
happened instead was an adventure in the UK, the country we have known since
our existence but have been experiencing with a new mindset.
I touched on this in the last post, on my
reflections about altering one’s mindset to experience life as a traveller, a
tourist – rather than a passive observer. And I feel we have lived up to this.
So what have we have been doing?
I got a job with a multinational
pharmaceutical company and have spent the last two years under the thumb of
this corporate entity. A cog in a very large wheel. A drone in an autonomous
machine. It hasn’t been bad per se, but it is a far cry from the K-life and the
travels we shared together...
A great part of the job was the move to
Scotland in January 2013. This meant that I got to travel around a part of the UK
I had never properly explored. The best part was that Katie decided to come
with me and secured a job at a college. I am going to post a brief montage of
the past two years after I get over this initial blog update, which shall
contain many photos from the 12 months we spent living on the west coast of Scotland.
We have had several holidays to Eastern
Europe, Italy, India (for Katie),
Portugal (for me), and the US (for Katie). Again we plan to post photos and
stories that I wrote at the time but never found the gusto to publish here
during these times.
After a year in a non-independent (i.e.
dependent) Scotland, we moved to Southern England to a city called Brighton.
And what a city it is. I didn't quite realise how great this place was until we moved here. In my years growing up in London, I hadn't bothered to take the
time to visit it. Now I would say it’s one of my favourite cities. With the new
traveller mindset being fully embedded, we have explored Brighton and Hove but still
feel there is plenty more to see. And now over 11 months in, we're going to be
sad to leave it. Here are some of our favourite photos / memories (who knows the difference any more!?)
We live (for another month) in north-eastern Brighton in an area
called Woodingdean. It’s located in the Downs and is home to some spectacular
views as shown below.
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| No they are not bats as seen in Mulu... |
We have been house sharing with the Phils
(Phil and Philine), Woof, and more recently Mike. We went to the Phils’ wedding
and have had some truly fantastic times!
What else have we been doing with our time? Well, Katie has turned the “Blog of the
Morning Calm” into the “Book of the Morning Calm”. The 166 page coffee book has
a lifetime of memories in (actually it is closer to 17 months) and has been
gifted to Katie’s father Gazza.
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| Pictures of our blog book of our blog. Talk about life imitating art imitating life! |
After my somewhat half arsed attempt at creating
a TV show before being swept up in the corporate life, I realised my dreams of
being a writer/director were probably a bit far fetched... As much as I enjoyed
it, I guess with the fall-back of a decent career, it is always going to be
difficult to take that leap of faith. I have kept up the writing though with
brief spurts of holiday writing and random paragraphs of angst, as well as
concentrating a large proportion of my free time on a novel.
It’s a sci-fi novel called "Centum 184" and
it will be a series of at least 3, most likely 5 novels. Of course I have vague
notions of being published and figure it would be easier than getting the
capital to start a TV show. The first major draft is finished and I have sent
it to a few close friends for a critique so I can have it back in time for a
New Year re-write. For you see, my time at the moment has been taken up working
and learning Portuguese.
