When we visited our team together in September last year, Heidi’s boss made a suggestion that we are now pursuing. She suggested that we could stay in someone’s house this summer as a kind of housesitter while they are away and spend a few weeks in the UK that way without having to spend loads of money. We could work in the Carlisle office during the week and use the weekends to visit the Lake District, Scotland and anything else we wanted to see.

In the meantime, our plans are coming together – on July 2nd, just one week after we get back from Tenerife, we will get in the car veeery early in the morning to catch an early ferry at Calais and make it to London before noon. We’ll spend a long weekend there and then travel up to Carlisle the following Monday. Then we’ll stay until mid-August before we make our way back, again via London, to our home country.

As we would like to go to a family reunion in Germany during this time and the cheapest flights are out of Edinburgh, we’ve already booked a hostel there (ideally located right at the Firth of Forth) for the days before our departure. We’ll spend two days in Edinburgh and then fly to Germany, so we’ll save on an extra trip, since we were going to see Edinburgh again (with some more time on our hands and hopefully better weather than last time) anyway.

Despite the fact that we need to work, this seems like a nice way of extending our honeymoon. We get a couple of days in London and Edinburgh and weekends in the Lake District and the Highlands – and we can do our regular jobs in between. So we’re definitely looking forward to this time.