Enjoy your retirement Des 👍
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Enjoy your retirement Des 👍
Congratulations on a well earned retirement. You sound as if you have things planned quite well. For me, the initial period after retiring was like a holiday period doing little other than trips abroad but, after a couple of months after getting 40 years of work mostly out of my system, that holiday period faded with a realisation that this is it. I dawned on me that, in between holidays and getting the house and garden in order, more was required to fill the available time which I had underestimated. There is no future in sitting round watching daytime TV adverts for someone trying to sell you an insurance policy to pay for your coffin. I set a weekly pub quiz to stop my brain going to mush and read this messageboard to undo that, do voluntary work and take a language class. I'm sure that you will sort it. Good luck Des
1st of well done, 2nd'ly, keep doing things, anything, I have a fair few customers who have retired while ive known them, they fall into 2 groups, 1st group, keep up with a routine but doing things they want to enjoy,
2nd group have a few months to put their feet up and enjoy the garden ( turns into 6 mouths, then 1 year ) these never get going again, they are just waiting to Die
choose life, choose the 1st option
Enjoy each day as it comes, if you want to do something just do it, dont put if off . You will never know what is coming around the corner.
I retired in September and had the money for a good holiday but decided to wait until my retirement money came through. I did not receive my money until March. By then my mobility was severely reduced and I was not in a position physically to go on holiday due to mobility issues and fatigue. Two months later I was given a terminal diagnosis.
Drove from Hungary to Mostar today. Crossed the border at Slovonski Brod . I didn’t expect (after 30 years) to see so many burnt out & derelict houses. It was like that for the first 20 miles or so inside the border. After travelling through fertile Hungary & Croatia. north Bosnia was an unkempt wasteland. Sarajevo to Mostar is breathtaking gorges, rivers & ice blue lakes. Mostar is overrun with tourists from all over the world but still exceptionally historical & scenic.
Unfortunately and not very useful to you, the best time to visit the more popular parts of Central Europe was quite a few years ago. Places like Prague, Budapest and Dubrovnik are inundated with tourists these days, as you know. My last two trips in that area took in Northern Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo, Moldova, Transnistria, Ukraine and Belarus.
I had no idea of how divided until the last 48 hours. The 1/3rd Serb population will forever prevent the country from moving forward and disbar them from joining the EU. Whilst it prides itself on its multi-ethnicity that diversity is also its downfall. Its been a fascinating and educational two days. The scenery stunning & the people so friendly, wish we had longer here.
I turned 60 this month, got my senior season ticket for next season which made me feel old but reading this thread made me think more about retirement again. Probably another 2 or 3 years left in reality but every stressful day in work makes me think about it more!