Don’t worry, I’ve still been writing. I did an hour a day when I was on holiday in Montenegro. I just didn’t have a keyboard or computer so couldn’t do this. Instead I bought the ol’ Remarkable out of retirement and was reminded about how nice it is to actually write on a physical thing. You have to move much slower than when you’re typing though, the speed of thought has to be controlled and slowed otherwise you end up making mistakes that your brain doesn’t even see until much later. Obviously there's no spell check either, but that’s barely an issue when the words you yourself have written are often illegible or require actual fucking forensics to decipher… still it does feel a lot more intimate and personal. There is no one that can easily imitate your style or “voice,” no one that can write like you do, no one that can even read what you’ve written. I do hope that the stuff on the Remarkable tablet is saved somewhere in the cloud and years from now, I’ll rediscover it’s lost pages and be able to reflect on how much of a dickhead I was in my 30th year. Although, whenever I do read my old journals I find myself congratulating and back-slapping myself to an absurd degree (given my youth when writing inside said journals). The instagramming was a fun distraction or blogging or something from the holiday, however on a few days I was like “meh, cba to do this today” and then felt bad that I wasn’t sharing the content like I said I would. Then again, I also promised to write for an hour a day and only managed that for, like, half the days I was there. Ultimately, when it comes to holidays the question is “was it a positive experience?” Short answer: I guess. Long answer: I guuuuuesssssssss. Never gets old that one. In all seriousness it was hard at some points, I felt very alone and wanted to see Emma. At other points it felt amazing just to be out on my own again, reviving my taste for adventure and for life. I ended up getting another tattoo which if not a symbol for how “wild” and “rebellious” I am I don’t know what is, maybe I should get a heroin habit and start a shitty punk band also. #travel #review