back to normal

and so came to an end the lovely three and a half weeks in sicily. i am now back in helsinki, and as nice and relaxing as the trip as a whole was, it was nice to come back as well. the drop of about 20 degrees in the temperature feels, at least for now, like a welcomed change; so does the freshness of the air and the rational traffic. i am also happy to get back to my normal diet and certain other routines, and i have missed my yoga shala as well; so all in all, it's not entirely devastating that the holiday is over.

i was happy to run this morning in the familiar surroundings again, and the fact that i was able to do so around ten in the morning without getting a heat stroke was actually quite fantastic. don't get me wrong, i love warm weather, but i must say that sicily in august was, at times, too much for me -- just like extreme cold, extreme heat is unbearable, perhaps even more so than the coldness. for the first time in my life i experienced a climate where it actually gets so hot that you can't/ won't go outside; interesting as an experience but i would probably not choose to live in such a place.

so now it's back to normal. i do hope i will be able to maintain some of the relaxed mindset that came along with the sicilian holiday, or at least access it every now and then; as the autumn ahead appears to be quite full of things i reckon in some point a little bit of sicily inside my head will be more than needed.

to wrap it up, here's a link to my other blog where i have posted some pictures from the trip -- have a look if sceneries outside the realm of running are of interest to you: http://pctrs.blogspot.com/