An Eventful Two Months
I took the last two months as a break from blogging and try to sort out other things in my life and to enjoy myself in the mean time. It was an eventful two months and won’t be forgotten anytime soon. It had its highs and its lows. Although I did miss blogging to a certain extent it was nice to have time away from the laptop and get other things sorted. Most are sorted and others are not, but as is life, there will always be new issues popping up that need sorting.
My last post was over two months ago, on the 6th of June. It was only a few days before this that I had started a new fitness regime to get myself back into shape. I had discovered a new gym just a five minute drive from the city where I live. It involved a very strict diet and workout sessions like none I’ve ever experienced before. I stuck to the diet and the exercise sessions and I could not only see the results but feel them too. In the first two weeks I had lost a stone in weight (14lbs) and I felt better about myself and I was building muscle mass at the same time. Now you might think a whole stone in just two weeks?! Madness, I agree, much too fast, but it was working for me and I was determined to stick to it as I was seeing and feeling the results.
At the end of the first two weeks I became very ill, now I know what you might be thinking, but no it had nothing to do with the diet or the exercise regime. It was an illness that I had fallen victim to back in March, which I wrote about here. According to the doctor, the bug, virus or whatever it was, had never completely left my system and it decided that it would surface at the worst time. I was doing well on my new fitness fix and really did not want to stop, but I was confined to my bed, off work and had no energy levels what so ever.
It took nearly two weeks before I felt right again and even then I still felt a bit weak. At the end those two weeks I was due to go on holidays to Berlin, Germany, on the 29th of June. I went on the holiday feeling much better but was still wary of what I consumed. After the first 2 days of the holidays I felt great and enjoyed my holidays. I was able to eat and drink properly again.
We went to Berlin for 10 nights. Berlin is one of the most beautiful and amazing cities that I have ever been in and I would go back again tomorrow if I could. There is so much to see and do in Berlin that we had just about enough time to do them. There is a lot of shopping areas in Berlin to keep the shoppers amongst the group happy but also there where so many tours of the city. There is a lot of history in Berlin, as you can imagine, we went on walking tours of the city and saw sights such as the Brandenburg gate, the victory monument, the Reichstag, Hitlers bunker and lots more. If you are wondering where to go on holidays and haven’t already been there, then book it now, it was a great holiday and one of the best that I ever had.
Once the holidays where over it was festival time here in Galway city. Galway has two very famous festivals that run one after the other. The first being the Galway Arts Festival. The festival includes a great number shows, plays and concerts. One of the main highlights of the Arts Festival is the Macnas parade. This year it was a night parade, with lots of pyrotechnics that really kept the crowd entertained. Afterwards there was fireworks display that was amazing.
The next festival after the Arts Festival is the Galway Races. The Galway races attracts hundreds of thousands of people to the city each year. The city is alive with the buzz of the races, streets are jam packed with people enjoying themselves and having a good time that it is very hard not to get caught up in the excitement. Going to the racecourse itself is another experience that is not to be missed. I have been to the races every year of my life. My parents use to bring me up when I was younger I have been going ever since. Again the crowds that are at the races make it what it is and the excitement when the horses are approaching the finish line and you think that you might be in with a chance of winning, and when your horse does win!!
Now things are back to normal, I’m back to my fitness regime and have already lost a few lbs since I started only a week ago. I am looking forward to getting back into my blogging habits again and making some new friends out there. I know I may have rambled on, but if I was blogging over the last two months you would have probably got the same spiel, but in bursts.
Mike
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