My employer has decided that they don't want me any more, I have a long notice period which they are going to shove me in the garden for so cannot work for anyone else so apart from watching the city, from September for a few months, I can do anything.
ideas welcome please on some amazing places, events, trips etc that you have done that I should consider. Will be with the wife as well.
Some form of mini bucket list hopefully before finding another job.
Thanks
It can be the best thing that has ever happened to you. We spend so much of our lives getting caught up in routines that we forget that there is a world out there.
I have done two 'sabbaticals', one was a 6 month trip to America, where I lived in San Diego for most of it, and the other was just before the pandemic where I went to Vietnam and Indonesia. Being away for about three months for that one. Both experiences are probably two of the best things I have ever done in my life. Just adopt a fuck-it mentality. Go places you never thought you would go to, meet people and realise how amazing the kindness of some strangers can be (note, apply that rule sensibly), and live it like they are your last days on the planet.
I have spent all night sitting on the beach, round a fire drinking beers, waiting for the sun to rise over the Pacific Ocean with an amazing group of people I met in a backpackers hostel. I have ridden motorbikes around Vietnam and had to camp out in the jungle when a monsoon came down, not knowing if I would make it another day. All of it, priceless life experience and the best things that have ever happened to me. Playing beer pong in random bars with the most amazing strangers you have ever met. I know you will have your wife with you, but that's fine, you can still make something really amazing with her.
Reach out if you would like any ideas, or more nostalgia from my book of memories! Good luck.
