Lessons from: Being back home

An attempt to glean meaning from post-travel blues.

• Never work the day after getting home – or the day after that if possible [allow time in advance to recover from potential sickness, jet lag, post-travel blues etc.]

• Unpack your suitcase straight away

• Do your washing as soon as you can

• Sit in the sun [again, if possible]

• Buy flowers for the house, even just a stem or two

• Create folders and organise all your travel pics

• Don’t over-commit to plans

• Hold onto the feeling of being somewhere else by going places in Melbourne by yourself

• Enjoy the little novelties like being able to sit at the kitchen table with a coffee, or making dinner at home

• Don’t feel bad about not doing something everyday – enjoy slowing down

• Melbourne coffee [and drinking water] is superior in every way

• Don’t fill the void by buying things

• Try to keep reading

• And keep writing, home can be just as interesting

• Enjoy being surrounded by people who you know, and who know you

• Embrace the familiarity [don’t resent it]