Another week away from home...

Enjoying a few days away in Whitby.

While I am a pagan through and through, it sometimes feels like my path takes a haitus too when I am on holiday.  The things I do that I consider to be 'pagan activities' have to take a break to some extent.  All I have left, really is my awareness, attitudes and worldview.

And, of course, I have my family here with me - what could be more heathen than that?

But perhaps, it was these things that remain during my week away from home that would have discerned the vikings (or nordic people, if you will) from the anglo saxons, celts or romans.  Just simply the beliefs and understanding.

Maybe that, beyond any activities or practices, is the important bit?

#vikinginvasionofspain2015

Well, we are coming to the end of our pillage of Salou.  We fly home on Tyr's day.  We successfully sacked Barcelona yesterday and now we're enjoying beers in the shade as Sunna is bloody boiling hot today.

Spain has been very nice and all but I look forward to getting away from all the tourists.

Travel review to come -- maybe...

Keeping myself out of mischief: A restoration project worthy of a Viking

For the future, I am thinking of getting myself some kind of motoring restoration project for me to tinker with. Now that I am fully moved into a home with a garage and will start to have more free time (especially if I get a job closer to home), I think a hobby/project like that would be the perfect thing to keep me out of mischief.

I was thinking along the usual lines of a motorbike/classic car for restoration. Now, though, I have been thinking that maybe a classic pickup truck would fit my personality better. Unusual but practical and just plain different to the swathes and swathes of run of the mill Capris, Porsches and Fords.

Very heathen, too, when you think about it. I am sure Vikings would have driven pickups, had they the chance. Plenty of room in the back for all that stolen loot. ;)