So, before life became all about things like mortgages, babies, school, careers, cooking, cleaning, cooking, drinking wine, more babies, jobs, cooking, cleaning, drinking more wine, working, bills the world seemed like a far larger place. A place to explore. Endless possibilities. So many cool places to visit, to explore, to experience. Having children both expands your mind and shrinks your immediate world. Before I had children I was a lawyer - I travelled extensively within the UK for work, abroad for pleasure, I'd done the whole back-packing thing in my younger days, I've worked abroad, I've studied abroad, I'd done the swanky boutique hotel city breaks as I got older and the very necessary zonk-on-a-beach-package-holiday as a break from work, I'd done the week meditation retreat (with wine and skinny dipping) in exorbitant and picturesque Italian
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