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So why a blog you ask? What’s the purpose? What’s the point? Who is it for? What am I selling? What am I about? Lots of questions, lots of answers!
As I sit and write this, it is Burns night (25th January 2014) and I’m away from my family. I’m in Holland with work and I’m missing my family like crazy, they have just enjoyed a Burns Supper without me, and I really wish I was home with them. Right now I’m sitting in the Carlton Oasis hotel bar in Spijkenisse Rotterdam enjoying a pint of Hertog Jan, looking through the photos on my phone I’ve realised that I have had some amazing adventures in the last couple of years, adventures that no one really knows about. I’m right at the end of my thirties and turn 40 next year. I work away from home for more than 6 months of the year and when I’m home I like to make up for lost time, hence the mini adventures.
As I sit and reminisce about good times I’ve spent with family and friends it suddenly occurs to me that the adventures I’ve had would make a nice journal to look back on, and to do this I need to document these adventures somewhere, and so here we are!
So what will this blog consist of then? Well, it will mostly be food and drink related, and of course posts of the mini adventures that we have along the way. If you stick with it then I hope you enjoy the ride!
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