Can you relocate back to where you relocated from?

This was a question my brother asked me a few weeks ago when I told him we had moved back to the UK.

Ok. While you absorb that sentence I’ll check the dictionary definition of ‘relocate’.

Relocate – to establish oneself in a new place.

Ok, so on that basis – no, you can’t relocate back as it’s not a ‘new’ place.

So, instead we will just have to say that we have returned.

Having got their head around that statement, most people’s next question – surprisingly – was not ‘why?’ – but – ‘what are you going to do about your blog?’

Well, I don’t quite know what to do about my blog. I am not in Spain anymore so cannot write about life there, but I have been living there and now have to integrate back into life in the UK and in that , there are still experiences to tell, so maybe I should carry on writing about my daily happenings.

In the meantime we are all well and settled in our new home, me, Neil & and the pups. We have been back a couple of weeks and have had time to adjust to being back. The move went remarkable smoothly and, although we were travelling for 4 days and in hotels for 5 nights, the dogs were unbelievably well behaved. They were absolute stars.

And so to the question, why are we back?

Because, I wanted to come back.

And I am incredibly fortunate to have a husband who was happy to come back too, even though he was very settled in Spain and enjoyed life out there, he told me it is important that I am happy and after all, he can play golf anywhere.

And so we are back to normality. My time in Spain has felt like I had opted out of normal life, as if I was living in a bubble, away from the day to day hullabaloo that is life. Maybe I am just a classic case of ‘You can take the girl out of the city but you cannot take the city out of the girl’ who knows.

What I do know is, I am very happy to be back.